"God wouldn't want me to stay in this miserable marriage."
How it sounds in your head: Surely God wants me happy. Staying in this cold, dead relationship can't be His will. A loving God wouldn't trap me in lifelong misery at this stage of life.
"For the LORD God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously."
-- Malachi 2:16Religious lie that God prioritizes personal happiness over covenant, that feelings determine His will.
The marriage brings him pain, not joy. It feels cruel that God would require him to endure this for his remaining years.
Lost everything, sat in misery and ash, wife told him to curse God and die, friends condemned him. He held onto covenant through the nightmare—God restored DOUBLE everything and made his latter days greater than his beginning.
I REFUSE the lie that God wants my happiness more than my covenant. IT IS WRITTEN: He hates divorce because it wounds me, not because He's cruel. Job lost everything, sat in misery, but held covenant—God made his LATTER DAYS greater than his former. IT IS WRITTEN that ALL THINGS work together for good, not just comfortable things. I am under the BARAK blessing that held through every patriarch's difficult season—none escaped hardship, all received covenant victory. Misery is not a release clause. God is turning this into DOUBLE restoration NOW.
The Father isn't trapping you in misery—He's about to turn this into your Job 42:12 moment where your latter days are greater than your beginning. What looks like a cross on Friday becomes resurrection by Sunday.