God can deal with us in anyway he chooses. God is all powerful and so in our thinking we must never limit his way of acting. Still God most often interacts with us through other human beings. This is especially true since the time of the incarnation.

Jesus is the Son of the Father from all eternity and equal to His Father in all things. Yet at the moment of the incarnation in accord with the will of His Father He became human like us in all things but sin. Jesus was sent to us in the flesh by His Father. That is what Jesus had in mind when He said, "Whoever puts faith in me believes not so much in me as in him who sent me." And as Jesus was sent by the Father, so other human beings are sent by the Holy Spirit to continue the mission of Jesus on earth. We see an example of this commissioning in the first reading. The Holy Spirit declared: "Set apart Barnabas and Saul for me to do the work for which I have called them."

In Jesus God wanted to be close to us in a way which we could understand and appreciate. God continues to be close to us through the bishops and priests and other ministers of the Church. We ought to rejoice that God has chosen to deal with us in a human way. This is still another sign of His love and concern for us. Although human ministers are weak and make mistakes, God in His wisdom sees that His way is best of us.