In Genesis 3, when man had sinned and broken his relationship with God, the Lord “called to the man” (Genesis 3:9). In Luke 19:10, Jesus said that “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Matthew 18:12-14 and Luke 15:4-7 record one of Jesus’ parables, wherein he teaches that if any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? In John 1:43, Jesus “purposed to go forth into Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him, ‘Follow Me.’” In John 9, Jesus healed a man who had been born blind, giving him sight. The Pharisees put the man out of the synagogue, and in verse 35, “Jesus heard that they had put him out; and finding him,” Jesus ministered to the man’s heart, and the man “worshiped Him” (John 9:35-38).
The Almighty God seeks the lost. Psalm 14 teaches us that “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one” (Psalm 14:2-3). God reaches out to man, because He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but is patient toward us, because He desires all of us to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (Ezekiel 18:32, 33:11, John 12:32, 1 Timothy 2:4, and 2 Peter 3:9).
Since we have been saved by and serve such a God, then we, as his ambassadors, can only do the same. We cannot be ashamed of the gospel, the entire gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Romans 1:16). We must live as He did that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father. Think of those who sought you, to save you from God’s wrath against sin. Because He, by His Spirit and through the saints in our lives, sought us, we are under obligation to seek others.