The late Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and literary critic, once asserted that, “Power is not the state forbidding you to do something; it is your teacher, doctor, or psychiatrist telling you who you are.”  Foucault was making a critical point about the nature of power.  He is arguing that genuine power is not so much how the state affects our ability to engage in action, but rather how various authority figures try to shape who we are.  Actions are one thing; beingness is quite another.
     Foucault makes a good point.  In the end, as numerous commentators, including Jesus, have pointed out, we can do the right things even while our hearts are telling us we should not.  Hence, freedom is not so much liberation from external restraint as it is our ability to shape our heart, to tame and manage who we ultimately are.  Genuine freedom is the gift of being good within, not necesssarily the liberty to do the "right" thing.
     And in this, as Jesus put it so succintly, is "freedom indeed."  We cannot be fully free until we admit that we cannot be so on our own.