The house you long to see sold is but a temporary shelter of wood and stone, yet you are a purchased possession, bought not with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. Look at the text again: "You are not your own: for you are bought with a price." Value is clearly here, for you are bought with an immense price. How great a store ought man to set by himself as before God, for he is a purchased possession. Though precious enough to have been bought with a price, yet none of the preciousness is yours. Believer, you are the goods and chattels of Christ, as you were once sold under sin, so are you now bought with a price.
In this matter of your house, the sleet may beat in your face, but keep His way, come fair, come foul. The righteous shall keep God's way, and so must you, trusting not in the swiftness of a sale but in the wisdom of Him who appoints the time and the price. I like a man whose mind is set upon being right with God, a self-contained man, by God's grace, who does not need patting on the back and encouraging, and who, on the other hand, does not care if he is frowned at, but has counted the cost and abides by it.
Consider the house to let with no tenant, where no fire burns on its hearth and no warm smoke ascends the chimney, therefore there lies the snow. Just as the warmth is inside so the melting will be outside. Let the warmth of the Spirit fill your heart with contentment, and the external circumstances of frosty delay will melt according to His will. What gain it is to feel that you are no longer the servant of men or of market whims, because you are bought with a price.
You say, "I need the right price, I need the sale soon." Go on with the list. "I need a thousand things." Hear Him answer: "I will not forsake you. I will see you through the trial. I will carry you over the difficulty. I will bear you on. I will lift you over. I will bring you out. I will abide with you to the end." If this blessing comes without money and without price from His hand, no soul need be without it, and certainly no child of His should be without patience while waiting for it. The difficulty is that His price of simple trust is too low for human pride, sinners will not come down to it, and saints too often fret alongside them.
You need not look within to gauge the outcome, the exterior of a quiet confidence is sufficient index. I do not need anything better than this, anything truer than this, anything safer than this. Having got this promise, it shall abide in me, in my heart, in the very bowels of my life. Test Him as often as need arises; there is nothing like putting Christ to the test.