Real-Talk: Subjugation Schema

Many of us have experienced a need to serve others in order to avoid anger or abandonment by suppressing our own preferences and desires. Though we may do so to gain approval, this schema afflicts us by either breeding passive-aggression or worse: we manifest our anger to those closest to us because we only serve others out of fear or guilt. We become a shell of who we can be since we’re only doing things that someone tells us to. If constantly subjugating ourselves feels as if we’re being robbed of what God created us to be, the gospel truth teaches us to not only act on what we care about but also to die for the correct things because we have an example in Jesus, who lived a life surrendered to others for the sake of love.