“For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.” Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present. For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” — II Corinthians 10:10-12 NKJV
Comparison amongst brethren creates chaos because people would be made to perceive one as more relevant than the other, which is very bad. Sometimes, these things happen more frequently to writing-ministers than those who stand and preach the Word physically.
Because people can’t see the power of the gospel manifest so evidently during physical gatherings when such ministers preach, some tend to see the writing-ministers as people having content but weak in speaking the gospel physically. Unfortunately, this happened to Paul, and he addressed it in 2 Corinthians 10:11.
Some Corinthians thought Paul was writing too deep things in his epistles, but his physical presence was so humbling that they doubted whether it was the same Paul who wrote those letters to them. The good news is, it was so.
To any follower of a minister who preaches and teaches the Word through writing, do not commit the mistake of seeing that minister as only powerful in the field of writing but weak in physical ministrations. No! It’s the same God that loads the preacher’s heart with words to write such sound doctrine, whether online or in hard-copy books.
The strength of a minister is not in what he does but in who God has made him and graced him to be different. Make a conscious decision to end the comparison between writing and physical presence ministrations of a man of God. God has you, and He wants you to be ministered unto in as many ways as possible. Don’t trivialize any means He uses to teach you the Word.
You’re a blessing.
Devotional Code: KGD // 2022 – 118
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