We read in John 5:27 that the Father has given authority to judge to the Son because He is the Son of Man. However, at His first coming, He did not come to judge, but, as today’s verse tells us, to seek and to save.

The Gospel of Luke emphasizes to us the grace that has met mankind in their great need as sinners. In the three-part parable in Luke 15, we see something of the extent of this grace. The man who loses one sheep seeks after it until He finds it. This is, of course, a picture of our Lord seeking His lost sheep. The woman who loses one coin seeks for it until she finds it. This presents the subjective work of the Holy Spirit in the soul, in conviction, and leading to Christ. Then, the father who welcomes home his lost son is a wonderful picture of how our God and Father receives every repentant sinner. The entire Godhead is interested in the salvation of lost sinners.

The fact that the Lord, as the Son of Man, had to seek, implies that we truly were lost: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, everyone, to his own way.” Yet the Lord Jesus came seeking for each one of us. And having found us, He saved us. What a wonderful word salvation is! As we often say, salvation has a past, a present, and a future aspect. He has saved us from our sins and the eternal judgment we deserved. In the present, He is daily saving us from ourselves—the flesh and its power—as well as saving us from many dangers in the pathway that we often are not even aware exist. Then, as to the future, He will save us completely from the very presence of sin when He comes at the Rapture and gives each of His own a glorified body. Then we will be with Him in those bright and blessed scenes where sin will never come! Perhaps today!