Women, we need to be less prideful.

We are going to be talking about pride and women being too prideful.
Oxford defines pride as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance.”

In ancient Greek, hubris referred to "outrage": actions that violated natural order, or which shamed and humiliated the victim, sometimes for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser.

While pride and hubris are connected, they are two different things. Now pride is a complex emotion, and it isn’t bad on its own. We all take pride in our work at times and in our families and children. But there is a huge difference between Godly confidence and pride. Remember that pride is a sin.

In relationships, the manifestation of pride can lead to resistance, hindering the growth of love and understanding. I wanted to talk about how particularly it may contribute to women being resistant to men during moments of anger.

Whether it stems from a desire to assert independence, fear of vulnerability, or a need to protect oneself emotionally, this resistance may hinder the development of a deep and meaningful connection.

Pride is that resistance to submission to a man or to God’s will. Unfortunately, society is selling women liberalism as “freedom,” and devaluing and degrading yourself as “empowerment.”

“She’s a strong independent woman who don’t need no man,” – is the prideful attitude so many women have been indoctrinated with, and yet - It’s estimated that 45% of women ages 25–44 will be single and childless by 2030, according to a study by Morgan Stanley.

Proverbs 31:10-31: "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies..."
Proverbs 31:26: "She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness."
Proverbs 31:30: "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."

Women need to start enforcing these standards on themselves and other women. If you have a friend and you hear her smearing men or being arrogant and haughty you need to hold her accountable.

1 Peter 3:3-4: "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."

Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
James 4:6: "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble."
Proverbs 8:13: "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
Proverbs 29:23: "A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit."

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up,” – James 4:10