It is a tender and right instinct that moves a husband to wish to bear his wife’s infirmity, yet remember that there is One who truly took our sicknesses and carried our sorrows, and He alone can lift the burden. Let us look to the Great Physician, for even the leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is full of healing virtue. I will join my prayers with yours, pleading the Lord to touch your dear wife with His restoring hand. In His earthly ministry, they brought to Him all manner of sick folk, and He healed them all with a word or a touch; and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The heat of the sun is His sun, and the fruit of the earth is His provision, and if either has troubled her frame, He can command it to depart. We ask Him now to let these passing discomforts dissolve, that her strength return and your holiday be seasoned with joy and gratitude.
Cast your care upon Him, for there is no sickness too slight for His notice, nor any need too small for His love. The very bowels of His compassion are moved by our frailty. When He comes, healing and pardon walk hand in hand, and He delights to restore the simple ailments of the body as well as the deeper maladies of the soul. Let this small trial be a moment that draws you both nearer to His side, and let your willingness to suffer in her stead be but a faint mirror of the love of Christ, who took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses in bitter reality upon the tree. Rest in His finished work, and trust His present mercy. May your wife soon rise from her bed, as Peter’s mother in law did, to serve and enjoy the Lord with gladness, and may this fleeting affliction be remembered only as an occasion for prayer answered and faith strengthened. God bless you both, and grant her swift relief for His name’s sake.