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Marriage After God

07 Marriage Devotional: Is Marriage Meant To Make You Holy?

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today on the Marriage After God podcast, we discuss God’s holiness, the process of Him refining us, and how marriage provides the context for Him to continue that sanctification in our lives. We share how difficult seasons often reveal what’s hidden beneath the surface—exposing impurities, refining character, and drawing us closer to God. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, husbands and wives can experience deep personal growth, greater unity, and more authentic love. We hope this episode is a reminder of the importance of forgiveness, reconciliation, and recognizing how God can use trials to strengthen and mature a marriage over time.

In this episode–

  • Trials in marriage reveal what lies beneath the surface.
  • Just as fire brings impurities of gold to the top, challenges expose the sin in our hearts.
  • The Holy Spirit is faithful to refine us and scrape away what doesn’t belong.
  • We are better today than we were years ago.
  • We’ve become quicker to forgive and quicker to reconcile.
  • Our love grows deeper with each passing year.
  • Marriage is always moving toward something greater.
  • Trials refine our character and strengthen our marital bond.
  • Love matures through challenges, forgiveness, and the work of the Holy Spirit.

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Keywords

marriage, growth, forgiveness, trials, love, Holy Spirit, reconciliation, personal development

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0:00.0

embrace the refinement, embrace the sanctification that God is using your marriage to make you more holy,

0:05.1

to make you more like his son Jesus, and let it happen.

0:08.8

It doesn't mean make it happen.

0:10.4

Right.

0:10.8

Because we're really good at that anyway.

0:12.9

Enjoy it when it's the storms have been calmed.

0:16.2

But when they come, don't run away.

0:18.5

Instead, force those roots that we talked about to go even deeper. In him. Hey, I'm Aaron. And I'm Jennifer. And we're the host of the Marriage After God podcast. Our desire is to help you cultivate a marriage that chases boldly after God's will for your life together. We want to invite you to subscribe to our show wherever you watch or listen. We are so glad you're here, and we pray that our discussion truly blesses you and your marriage.

0:39.9

Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.

0:50.6

Hey, everyone.

0:51.2

Welcome back to another episode of the Marriage After God podcast.

0:53.5

We're your hosts. I'm Aaron Smith. And I'm Jennifer. Welcome to the show. This is week seven of the Marriage After God devotional series. So if you've been going since the beginning, we're so glad to have you. If this is your first time, we just want to encourage you go back and start at the beginning. You're going to love all the episodes leading up. We have, what is it, 23 more to go on this 30-week series,

1:16.1

but this episode is going to be on being set apart as holy, on sanctification, on refinement.

1:22.3

And so thank you for joining. Before we get started, hit that like button, subscribe to our channel,

1:27.4

wherever you like to watch or listen. That way you're not going to miss any of the episodes. Before we get started, hit that like button, subscribe to our channel, wherever

1:27.6

you like to watch or listen. That way, you're not going to miss any of the episodes. You'll get

1:31.5

all of them. And also, lastly, this series is based on our bestselling husband after God,

1:39.6

wife after God, 30-day devotionals. And so if you'd like, you don't need them, but if you'd like, it would definitely enhance this experience. Go to shop.m.mageaftergodd.com. Pick up your copies of these, and that way you guys can personalize them. You guys will be able to sit down with each other, answer the questions, write them down in the note pages, and make it more personal. So we just want to encourage you to do that.

2:01.2

Awesome.

2:07.0

Well, we hope all of you who are tuning in are really enjoying this marriage devotional series.

2:07.7

We've tried to create it to be very dynamic with every topic, even though it's based on

2:13.2

the devotional, adding a little bit more to it.

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