Pride and Humility in Marriage | Marriage Devotional Week 13

How pride damages marriage, and how humility heals it. In week 13 of our marriage devotional series, based on Husband After God and Wife After God, Aaron and Jennifer Smith define pride as self-worship, the very sin behind Satan's fall in Isaiah 14 with its repeated "I will." We name the everyday ways pride shows up between spouses: needing to be right, control, defensiveness, the silent treatment, keeping score, comparison, and jealousy. We look at why Proverbs 6 lists pride among the things God hates, why James 4 says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble, and how pride blocks reconciliation, quenches the Holy Spirit, and deceives us into thinking we don't need God. The cure is humility: submitting to God, counting others more significant than ourselves, and keeping in step with the Spirit, like a toddler learning to keep pace with a father's hand.