A good post, funny I was thinking of the same fact myself today while praying (the Rosary even, {gasp}) : that God has chosen and continues to choose constantly, throughout history, men as instruments. Period.
Men (and women too of course, before I’m mistaken for a misogynist), not some thing, not angles or even signs or miracles by themselves, but all wonderful things done through men not in spite of them, this is always God’s choice. Again throughout all of history.
Why some doubt even today that this is the case is beyond my understanding anymore. One can’t have God using men, who are by their nature “visible”, that is “carnal” or “in the world” as a “light”, and at the same time believe in some “invisible church”. It makes no sense.
But to each his own I guess. Good luck though, should you (Joseph James, and anyone else really) wish to try to convince the rebellious of this obvious fact. It is a rebellion to deny this obvious plan of God; He Himself chose to become Incarnate. That alone should be enough to settle all of this.
But some still seek a “sign”, rather than look for God in reality.
Those seeking a sign would be the Catholic with the apparitions they call Mary.