A FRIEND of mine was in a state of anxiety over his pecuniary embarrassment, which was brought about through sickness in his family. He had had a most trying and expensive time amongst his children―many little delicacies were needed, and the doctor was in constant requisition.
At last they were restored to health, and my friend, who was a working man, knew not how to meet his doctor’s bill. He was grateful to the doctor for what he had done for him under God, and was most anxious to pay him at once, though it seemed almost impossible to do so. He resolved to tell no one of his difficulty but the Lord. He took his Bible, read some of its precious promises, and then, like Hezekiah, he laid the whole matter out before God in humble, believing prayer. This done, he patiently waited God’s way and time for the answer; nor had he long to wait, for a few days after he received a letter without name or address of sender, bearing the postmark of a place he did not know. The letter contained the exact amount, and no more, required to pay the account, and had this sweet promise of God attached to it: “Your heavenly Father knoweth ye have need of these things.”
My friend took it with tearful joy as from the Lord, and at once paid the account.
The gracious Lord, the Giver of all good, had set his heart and mind at rest.
“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And rests on that atone.”
W. C.