"If they really loved each other, it wouldn't be this hard."
How it sounds in your head: Movies make love look easy. My friends' parents seem fine. If my parents really loved each other, they wouldn't fight so much. Maybe they just don't love each other anymore.
"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:7Source: World's romantic fantasy—equates love with ease, ignoring that covenant love fights FOR, not just feels.
She compares her home to social media highlight reels and movie romances. Real struggle looks like failure when measured against fantasy.
God told Hosea to marry Gomer who repeatedly cheated on him and left. Hosea bought her back from slavery and loved her AGAIN despite everything—God's picture of covenant love that pursues beyond betrayal.
I REFUSE the lie that struggle means love is dead. IT IS WRITTEN that real love endures ALL things, bears ALL things, hopes ALL things. The battle my parents face doesn't prove love failed—it proves love is being REFINED. IT IS WRITTEN that what God joins together, no man can separate. I declare covenant love over my parents' marriage. The enemy's attacks prove there's something WORTH fighting for. Love wins. Breakthrough is coming!
Father isn't watching the struggle thinking, 'They don't love each other anymore.' He's watching two people He joined together going through the fire that will make their testimony GOLD. He's already planned the celebration.