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Friday, September 08, 2017

What causes stress in marriage?  Money problems rank high in causing marital breakdowns.  Tragedy; the trauma of losing a loved one in the family, can put great stress on a marriage.  So can physical illness, especially when a condition drags on indefinitely. 

When stress in marriage causes one to say things they wouldn’t say otherwise, the spouse might feel justified to respond in kind.  Job’s wife lashed out at him and his faith, “Are you still holding on to your integrity?  Curse God and die!”  Her thinking no doubt was: Any God who would allow all this to one who follows Him with integrity isn’t worth trusting.  Frustration led to foolishness and angry words.  Often angry words spewed out to one’s spouse are the venting of deep frustration caused by the pain of losing what has been significant to us. 

Were wealth and the comforts it provides more important to Job’s wife than her relationship with God?  Did the loss of her children devastate her and bring her to despair?  Job knew the most significant thing to him was his relationship with God.  It’s not clear in the book of Job whether Job’s wife left him?  Did she give him the silent treatment?  Was the stress of their unfortunate circumstances too great for her to bear and she succumbed under pressure?  Whatever, Job experienced the marital test, yet he endured and remained faithful to God. 

If you’re experiencing stress and difficulty in your marriage, you can triumph, if like Job, you keep God first in your life, trusting Him to sustain and keep both of you. 

 

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