Sought Out by the King

In David's treatment of Mephibosheth, we see a picture of Christ's treatment of lost sinners.

We are all lame, weak, sinful, polluted, of no value to God - but He has mercy upon us and bestows upon us salvation and eternal happiness - because He loves us!

David sought out Mephibosheth to show him kindness. David had much work and all the diversions he could want, but he deliberately found Mephibosheth.

So too our Savior came to seek and to save that which was lost. He laid aside His riches and glory to seek us out.

The cost to David was negligible, but the cost to our Redeemer was incalculable! He suffered the humiliation of the incarnation, was mocked and spit upon and beaten and put to death by His own creatures! Indeed, the Gospel is more elaborate, and more valuable, and more costly to God than all the creation. It required that the Word be made flesh and be sacrificed in the place of sinners.

David's seeking of Mephibosheth was an afterthought, but God's seeking out the sinner was determined from eternity past, as was the costly sacrifice and the identity of His people.

David's kindness to Mephibosheth was all David's idea and none of Mephibosheth's. So too sinners never conceived of the glories of salvation, for those glories were the divine conception. Sinners never come to God on their own because they are alienated and full of rebellion and dead in their sins.

God's kindness to sinners is astounding, because it requires Him to punish our offenses in His own dear Son the Lord Jesus. No sinner dare propose such a thing, but God declared it so!

Sinners must be fetched to Christ; Hallelujah, the Father draws us to Him and we are saved!