Manifest through preaching

God could have chosen to manifest His word to the world in any number of ways. He could have emblazoned it in the heaven like a daily broadcast. He could have fashioned the stars to proclaim His word. He could have sent of us an personal angel as a messenger from heaven.

In a general sense any proclamation of the gospel. Every singe believer must preach the gospel of Christ and carry out the ministry of reconciliation. It is up to us all to proclaim the gospel and we must be about it.

But specifically here Paul wrote to Timothy, a young preacher. God has chosen to make Himself known through the preaching of the gospel. God has called some us to publicly show Jesus to the world through our preaching. Remember how Paul told Timothy to ‘preach the word.’

Those of us who sit under preaching need to make sure that the preaching we hear manifests God, preaches about Him, and honours Him.

There is no other way to make Him known. We can show Him in our lives, but faith comes by hearing the word of God. Lets make sure that our preaching, and the preaching we seek out, makes God known to the world.