We are new creations and only to the degree that WE RENEW our minds to the knowledge of God and Christ . . . . will we manifest that Christ within. Feed your mind crap and crap will manifest . . . feed your mind with the things of God and that new creation within you will manifest itself. . . . That new creation is not a magic trick . . . We are given NEW DESIRES . . . but we still have our same mind - that is why we are told to "put off the old man" and "put on the new man." We are told to "cast down imaginations and every thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God" . . . We are to "put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, as Christ forgave you, so also do you. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. Sounds sort of like the fruit of the Spirit, right? So as we put off the old man and put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created him . . . we will manifest the things of God and bear fruit in our lives.