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If your spouse is unfaithful

From the October 1978 issue of The Christian Science Journal


An answer does exist because God is Love and Love meets the human need— inevitably. The answer may demand of you the deepest spiritual growth you've been called upon to undertake. There are no formulas. There are no pat solutions when a husband or a wife has been unfaithful to the marriage covenant. But there is an answer for the spouse who has been wronged.

If an individual suspects or has learned that the marriage partner is guilty of infidelity, the human temptation may well lie in reaction—the kind of reaction that is based on anger, fear, hurt, disbelief. But Love's answer lies in a genuine response to spiritual facts rather than a reaction to the human circumstances. The more fully one discerns the spiritual facts, the more apparent will become the best human footsteps. What spiritual facts need to be grasped? There are many. But Christian Science reveals a few of the most basic to include a realization that your relationship to God is intact—complete and uninterrupted; that evil is always impersonal; that an understanding of the spiritual essence of Church can be a healing power in your life and in your thoughts about your spouse.

While it may appear that a rift has occurred between you and your mate, the more exact challenge is the belief that you have been separated from God. A human reaction firms up the belief that the problem is between you and another mortal personality. A spiritual response clears the way for a solution that reveals more of your ceaseless relationship to God.

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