Zacchaeus thought he was the one trying to find Jesus, but before he ever climbed the tree, Jesus already knew his name and had come looking for him. That is the heart of the Gospel: Jesus does not wait for lost sinners to find their own way back to God; He actively seeks them out, comes near to them, and saves them. Our comfort is not found in how well we search for Jesus, but in the fact that “the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
