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“Let God Elevate Your Marriage” by @Kaala
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If you humble yourself in your marriage God will lift your marriage up. It’s a simple if-then setup here. If we humble, God will elevate. We lower, God lifts.

Sometimes humbling yourself means taking on mistakes you never made and apologizing for situations you didn’t cause trusting that God will take care of it.

Think about your relationships and how many times you’ve stood your ground, certain in your rightness. And maybe you were right.

I’m going to say now that there have been some times, you know, once or twice, when I’ve been absolutely right in an disagreement, ahem, argument with my wife.

I’m not just saying I was right ‘cause she’s not standing next to me, there was documented fproof of my rightness. I stood my ground in absolute certainty, won the argument, and slept on the couch.

That’s a lose-lose, let me tell you.

Humility is not weakness, it’s absolute strength. It’s so much easier to fight for your rights, fight to get your way, to prove your point or to win the argument then to be humble. And for what? So you can get your way?

In so many marriages I hear things like, “I’m NOT the one who should be apologizing! They should!” Or, “They don’t tell ME what to do. I’m not their…”

There’s even a broken model of marriage that suggest that you get your way one day, then yield so your partner get’s there way. The next time is your turn, then theirs and so on.

A successful marriage is not about one person’s way. It’s about a mutual way; it’s our way and we have to fight for it. The fight is not with our partners or against them, but with ourself against the need for “my way.” Humility is the key to that mutual purpose.

The dictionary definition of humility is that we have a

“low view of our own importance.”

and with the bible this is relative to someone else’s importance. In our marriage we are to consider our spouse’s needs as more important and above our own.

If humility sounds difficult and maybe even a little unjust, it’s because it is! Welcome to Jesus’s world. The bible says

“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness…he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross!”

Jesus deliberately humbled himself, he chose to lower so that his Father could lift.

Many of the problems that we will face in our lives are due to our inability to do this one thing, to deliberately humble ourselves. There’s almost no place better than your marriage to see this in action.

Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and in due time He will lift you up.