He seeks by coming Himself as the Son of Man. The Shepherd leaving the
fold and going forth into the wilderness to seek the wanderer, is a
picture of the Son of God leaving the glory which He had with the Father
before the world was, and visiting this fallen world as the Son of man,
in order that He might seek, and, by His atoning blood, might save the
sinner. We shall never understand His grace in seeking us if we do not
realize that great act of His already complete. This great finished work
of His is the foundation of all that follows, and if we want to
understand the mystery of His love in seeking us we must begin with the
two great facts, Incarnation and Atonement. Why did He become man? Why
was He born at Bethlehem? Was it not because He came on a divine mission
to seek the sinner? Why did He die? Why did He utter that bitter cry
upon the cross? Was it not that He might remove the curse by bearing it,
and having broken down every barrier, might have the joy of bringing the
lost one to the Father’s home? You, then, who are anxious about your
souls, and whose earnest desire it is to be sought out and saved,
remember what the Son of man has already done; fall back on the finished
fact; and never forget that however doubtful you may be as to your own
position, there is no doubt whatever as to the fact that the Son of God
has come to seek the lost one and to save him by His blood.