"We should have never gotten married; this was a mistake from the start."
How it sounds in your head: Looking back over fifty years, I see nothing but wrong choice. We were never compatible. This whole marriage was built on a faulty foundation. It was a mistake I've paid for with decades.
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."
-- Romans 8:28Enemy accusation that regret can nullify covenant, that hindsight reveals God's mistakes.
He can trace every problem back to incompatibilities that existed on day one. The marriage feels like one long confirmation of a initial bad decision.
Deceived into marrying the WRONG WOMAN—woke up with Leah instead of Rachel, the ultimate marriage mistake. God made Leah the mother of JUDAH—Jesus came through the 'mistake marriage,' not the chosen one.
I REFUSE the lie that my marriage was a mistake or that regret nullifies covenant. IT IS WRITTEN: ALL things work together for good—even Jacob's WRONG WIFE became the Messianic line. God specializes in making glory from what looks like error. IT IS WRITTEN that His ways are higher than ours, His thoughts than ours—what I call mistake, He calls purpose. I stand in the BARAK blessing that turned Jacob's deception into twelve tribes, Joseph's slavery into salvation. No marriage in covenant is a mistake. God is revealing purpose NOW.
The Father didn't make a mistake with your marriage—He's been weaving purpose through every hard year. What you call error, He calls the setup for glory you haven't seen yet.