If you are Western woman, you live in a culture that not only idolizes health and youth and beauty, but actively promotes the fear of disease and disability and old age. Whenever the worship of the creature replaces the worship of the Creator God, many truths about the nature of man and the nature of God are necessarily suppressed and replaced with false ones.
Lies are the prerequisite for idolatry.
When man ceases to live for the glory of God and lives to glorify himself, death and disease are the great and obvious enemies. The Christian woman must resist the world's attempt to hold her hostage through fear. Perhaps this is because modern women are prime targets for the media. Whether it is through magazine articles, news programs on television, ads and commercials, or the ever-present video in the doctor's office, we are constantly encouraged to fear. Sometimes this fear is used to get us to buy something.