This is especially true with teenage girls and young women, who are bombarded everyday with hundreds of images of wafer-thin models and media personalities. As another miracle diet crops up every day, we become riveted to the fluctuations in our body shape and mass. Our popular icons reward us for going to extreme lengths to worship at the feet of the glorious body. Yet when a young woman develops a serious eating problem like anorexia or bulimia, she often feels too ashamed to get help. Teenage boys and young men are also victims of a culture obsessed with body-grooming programs and products.
Magazine racks bulge with sculpted musculature.
We soon learn to use our physicality as a source of power and control, substituting the glorification of the body for the glorious body in Christ. Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. For some it may be the unexpected death of a loved one. For others it may be the birth of a child, publication of a book, survival of an earthquake, or recognition of a new reason for living.