"The love is completely gone; we're just roommates waiting to die."
How it sounds in your head: There's no spark, no warmth, nothing but tolerance and habit. We sleep in the same bed like strangers. At this age, you can't manufacture feelings that died years ago.
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her. I will give her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope."
-- Hosea 2:14-15World's lie that love is a feeling that can permanently disappear rather than covenant that awakens.
He feels nothing when he looks at her anymore—just familiar weariness. The romantic feelings that once existed seem like another lifetime, impossible to resurrect.
Five failed marriages, living with a man unmarried, heart completely cynical and dead to love. One conversation with Jesus and she ran through town with passionate joy—instant transformation from numb to alive.
I REFUSE the lie that dead feelings mean dead covenant. IT IS WRITTEN that God allures cold hearts and turns valleys of trouble into doors of hope. My emotions are not the foundation—His covenant promise is. IT IS WRITTEN that He is married to the backslider, that He romances the unfaithful back. The woman at the well had five dead marriages and one encounter with Jesus made her RUN with joy. I am Abraham's seed through Christ, heir to the BARAK blessing that never depended on feelings but on God's unchanging Word. He is breathing first-love into this marriage NOW.
The Father isn't waiting for you to feel something—He's already romancing both your hearts back to life. He's the God who allures, who speaks comfort, who awakens what you thought was buried forever.