the jealous wife by D r. Henry Brandt T h e r e is n o t h in g that will upset domestic tranquility sooner than
ilarly, the solution to this man’s hostile: approach toward .his wife was not ttf have her change. It is almost like] both partners having pneumonia. The doctor must treat each of them. It' might be that the husband kept the window open too wide and as a result the wife got sick. Can she say, “You caused me to be sick. You go get the shots”? The husband may have been most inconsiderate but both are sick and both need to be treated. In the case of my clients, each of them needed to come before God asking Him to help them to achieve a change of heart. The most wonderful thing is that as believ ers? we have a place to go. That is good news! Christ died to take care of jealousy, envy, hate and bitterness. The only thing that would keep you from availing yourself of the power of God in your life is an unwillingness to come. He said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” If you decide to nurse your grudge, you will be the loser. It is your privilege to be miser able, but you don’t have to be. There is a fountain of wisdom from above enabling us to respond to all of the affairs of life. “The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peace able, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy. . . .” What a wonderful thing to realize that the terrible world about us can’t touch us, unless we want it to. Christ died to enable us to effectively cope with the situations of life. This woman, struggling with a jealous heart, and her husband, thor oughly disgusted with her, had a need to turn Godward. Christ died for our sins. He died to give us the power that we need receive inner peace in a world in turmoil. You have the privilege of coming or you have the privilege of rejecting Him. What Will you do with Jesus? 7
jealousy on the part of one of the mates. A young man and his wife, ac tive church workers, came to me with the problem of jealousy on the part of the wife. She didn’t like other people talking to her husband whatsoever. This made him mad. In the first ses sion, she and I agreed, theoretically, that jealousy is a bad thing. The next Sunday they went to Sunday school, attending the married couples’ class. They sat down next to my client’s cou sin and her husband. The woman was seated next to my client’s husband. That wasn’t so bad until the teacher noticed that my client’s cousin didn’t have a Bible. He suggested her hus band share it with her. The wife didn’t like this whatsoever. She sat there jealous and “green with envy.” From what I gathered they had quite a fiery row on the way home from church. That week, when they returned for their appointment, there was a dis gusted man who entered the ofiice. His statement was, “I’m just fed up with her! I’ve had it!” Now, not only did I have a jealous woman on my hands, but also an angry man. So, in talking with the woman, she stated, “I have to make my husband think I’m jealous. Why, I wouldn’t know what he’d do if I weren’t. How could I trust him?” What a strange way to seek to main tain a marriage. Here was a Christian woman who was clinging to the work of 'the flesh in order to control her husband. Theoretically, it is quite easy to say that the work of the flesh is evil; we should turn Godward asking for victory. This young woman knew this. Yet, it was the last thing she wanted to admit. The solution to this woman’s jealous heart was not for her husband to be careful in isolating him self apart from any other women. Sim
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