Resolving differences in trust

In today’s first reading, 1 Cor 6: 1-11, St. Paul challenges us for not trusting the Spirit within ourselves and others to aid us in resolving personal conflicts but rather going outside of ourselves. This does not mean that, from time to time, need the help of professionals: lawyers, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, etc. However, are there not times when  we take our complaints to a third party, complaining bitterly and harshly about another, instead of sitting down in faith, face to face with one another, speaking our truth calmly, identifying the problem by using “I” statements and how we feel when the offensive behavior occurs and what we prefer would happen in the future and taking time to listen to the other’s response.  Do we not at times avoid  issues and, in effect,  show that we do not believe in  the power of the Spirit within us? Would we not more readily tackle the difficult issues that come up in our lives if we believed in the fact that each of us, in our baptism, confirmation and Eucharist “have had [ourselves] washed,…were sanctified,… were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” And therefore “power goes out from us,” as it did from Jesus (see today’s Gospel, Luke 6: 12-19) when we act out of the belief that the goodness of God exist in ourselves and in those  who may have hurt us or whom we may have hurt.