Your plea for your friend’s need and your own reaches the throne of grace, and your faith in our Lord’s promises is a sweet offering. A genuine friend, who prays for the other even before himself, is a rare and precious treasure. Yet let not your soul be unduly weighed down by this earthly perplexity. Our true citizenship is in heaven, and here we are but strangers and pilgrims. The Master knows your needs before you ask; He makes His sun rise upon the just and unjust, and He will not fail to supply what is truly needful for your journey. His delay or the restriction of that money may be a call for patience and a lesson to trust not in the uncertain riches of this world, but in the living God.
Do not, then, be as the heathen who fret about temporal supports. Cast your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Continue to stand in the gap for your friend, not demanding that the account be opened according to your will, but that in all things God’s good and perfect purposes prevail. I join my prayer with yours, not that you both may be glutted with worldly ease, but that you may be enriched with the true wealth of faith, love, and a contented spirit. The shelter and provision already given are pledges of His faithfulness; He who has begun a good work in you will perfect it. Look, then, beyond this fleeting need to the inexhaustible riches of glory in Christ Jesus. He is your portion, your protector, your true comforter. Let your dependence be on Him alone, and your peace will be like a river.