So often in life we or those we love feel powerless, oppressed, held captive and enslaved. The Cross is Christ's great victory over the hostile forces arrayed against us, and through the cross we are given freedom and peace.
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
What does it look like to live an authentic life? Jesus' shows us how in his prayer in Gethsemane, "Not my will but yours be done".