Worry ♦ A Twisted Form of Pride

This is, perhaps, the "greatest magnitude" lesson that was learned from the runaway bride—
   that worry is a form of pride.

And as proof, let's look at some things that the Bible says about pride and see if they don't apply to worry just as well:

○ His pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God. 2 Chronicles 26:16 NIV
   Worry indicates a lack of faith.

○ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. Psalm 10:4  KJV
   Seeking is inquiring after God's thoughts. Worry is meditating on one's own thoughts; a worrier is not seeking God.

○ How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, And has not turned to the proud... 
Psalm 40:4 NASB
   The trusting man is contrasted with the proud man; a trusting man does not worry.

○ The pride of your heart has deceived you... Obadiah 1:3 ESV
   Worry deceived Gwen. I know she'd argue that worry was "smart thinking," but she'd be wrong.Worried people are not thinking God's thoughts, and when you are not thinking like God, the you are deceived. 
 
○ Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble, but he keeps his distance from the proud.
 Psalm 138:6 NLT
   This verse explains why Gwen was having such a hard time hearing God's will for her daughter. She was proud of her misgivings, deceived into thinking it was wise to doubt; God keeps his distance from those people.

○ And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God. Luke 16:15
   Worrying is being faithless. Faith is necessary to please God. Since she ran away in the middle of the night, KatieLyn has desperately tried to justify herself.  I know, it's tough trying to justify why you ran off in total rebellion to God's plan for your life. Pride forces her to insist that what began as nebulous worries are in actuality valid concerns. They are not. Her attempt to legitimize her fear is, in God's eyes, pride in her lack of faith.  
 
○ Pride only breeds quarrels. Proverbs 13:10 WEB
   See, the very strange thing is that KatieLyn and Joe were not quarreling. The one she was fighting with was her mother. KatieLyn called off the wedding because she was fighting with her mother, not because of fights with her fiance. Maybe in some Eastern culture where parents choose their children's spouse this might make sense, but in America it makes her come off as mentally out of kilter. But I am beginning to digress...   Back on point, to make the correlation between pride and worry, this is what was causing KatieLyn to get into arguments with Gwen.

KatieLyn may not want to suck it up and deal with it, but her mother has demonstrated a prodigious amount of pride in the form of worry. Gwen's concerns and misgivings were not indicative of wisdom and brilliant insight. Her doubts and anxieties revealed her lack of faith both in her daughter and in God.  Worry is a twisted form of pride.

The Lesson
Although worry always connects with pride, the reverse may not be true. In other words, no equal sign is between them. It is possible to be so prideful and arrogant that worry gets shoved aside. But fears, doubts, concerns, and worries that run contrary to the word of God always have an element of pride. This pride-laced doubt is what caused the original fall of mankind. Worry that causes a loss of confidence in the Lord is a very serious sin. If you doubt God or doubt what He has said, then part of you thinks that you might know better than He does—and that, my dear, is Pride. 


BONUS:
I did not put this in with the original set of examples because I didn't want to be accused of taking things out of context, but I think you will see this sort of applies anyway:
○ But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. Daniel 5:20 NIV
   Worry hardened KatieLyn's heart with pride, and she was deposed from being a princess bride.