In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
Love is not a promissory note.
To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.
God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.