What true womanly strength looks like

I am blessed to be around men who value what godly manhood looks like.  I am also blessed to be around their wives who display true godly womanhood.  My wife displays these qualities of a strong and godly woman...for that, I am very blessed.

I also see in the culture we live in, both secular and Christian, terrible examples of godly womanhood and a huge misunderstanding of what it looks like.

It seems the popular idea of the day is that a woman should value herself greatly because God values her greatly...He is "captivated" by her as the title of a popular book suggests.

The damage that this type of theology and thinking does to a woman and her marriage is impossible to understate!  There are so many marital issues that result from a woman finding her value and worth from the idea that God is mesmerized by her.

Rather than fleshing this out myself, I am posting a link to a conference sermon by John Piper on the issue.  He says it better than I ever could.  Click here