Me: What are you doing?
Prodigal: Watching the street performers.
Me: He’s so slick he can sell water to a well.
This is from the book Beyound Our Selves by Catherine Marshall
How, then, can human nature change? Men have demonstrated that they cannot change themselves. Nor can men change other men. We have seen that education does not necessarily achieve it, nor legislation, nor raising incomes, nor plying them with all the gadgets that money can buy. That brings us to the crown of the Holy Spirit’s work among men. Only Christ can change the human nature, and it is the Holy Spirit that makes Christ available to needy mankind.
That is what happened to Saul of Tarsus, to Augustine, to Ignatius Loyala, to St. Francis of Assisi, and to thousands through the centuries. It is still happening to men and women in our day.
You never know how the Holy Spirit and who the Holy Spirit is going to change next….
Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
