"I should feel guilty for financial security when my friends are struggling"
How it sounds in your head: Your friend just told you she can't afford her medications and you're sitting on a comfortable nest egg. How can you enjoy your security when she's suffering? Good Christians share the burden. Your comfort feels like betrayal.
"Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause; and let them say continually, 'Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.'"
-- Psalm 35:27False teaching that God's blessing is limited and someone else's lack is somehow your fault
You see the struggle in your friends' faces at lunch when they decline plans because of money. Your security feels like a spotlight exposing their lack, and you've been taught that love means bearing everyone's burden.
Job's friends lost everything too, yet when God restored Job, He gave him DOUBLE everything he lost. Job's abundance wasn't reduced because others suffered—God's restoration was EXTRAVAGANT and IMMEDIATE.
I REFUSE the lie that my security is shameful. IT IS WRITTEN that the Lord has PLEASURE in my prosperity. My Father doesn't operate a scarcity economy where blessing one means withholding from another. IT IS WRITTEN in Philippians 4:19 that God supplies all needs according to HIS riches in glory. I am the blessed of the Lord, covenant heir of Abraham's BARAK. I receive security without guilt, knowing I can bless others from overflow, not from shame-driven sacrifice.
Your Father loaded you up with provision KNOWING your friends' situations, and He's not wringing His hands in regret. He gave you overflow so you could be a RIVER, not a reservoir—but He wants you drinking freely from it first, like the Father who adorned the returning prodigal while the older brother scowled.