The Holy Spirit has a way of short-circuiting

human problems. Indeed, in exactly the same

way as Jesus Christ in the flesh cut right through

the matted layers of tradition and exposed the

real issue: so we find the Spirit of Jesus dealing

not so much with problems as with people. Since

God's Holy Spirit cannot conceivably have changed

one iota through the centuries. He is perfectly prepared

to short-circuit, by an inflow of love, wisdom,

and understanding, many human problems today.

J.B. Phillips

You have taken off your old self with its practices and

have put on the new self, which is being renewed

in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Colossians 3:9-10