ZACCHAEUS

Zacchaeus was a little man, but he could, and did, climb up into a tree “to see Jesus.” Thus Immanuel and the sinner, loved from everlasting to everlasting, were now to meet in God’s appointed way and means. The “set time” to favour an heir of Zion had come. He who had seen Nathaniel “under the fig tree,” knew all about the poor sinner who “sought to see Jesus, and could not.” How like the case of many a poor mourner now who seeks to see Jesus, but whose desire is not yet granted! but, in this case, the set time being come, the dear Redeemer seemed to have (for the time) no eyes for any that pressed around Him, having fixed His whole attention on the loved one in the tree who wanted to see Him. The word of the King of Kings was about to be spoken with power to a poor, sinful man. “Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house.” It was as if the loving heart of the blessed Redeemer yearned over him who was “ordained to eternal life,” to bless him, and to reveal to him his interest in His great salvation. “Make haste, Zacchaeus! don’t delay to come down!” and it is said he “made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.” And so it is now. If the Lord graciously deigns to bid a poor sinner “make haste” to seek Him, that sinner will need no coaxing to “come to Jesus,” being “made willing” in the day of God’s power; and, if my dear reader is of little stature (spiritually) in his own eyes, and has been brought by Divine teaching to feel and to know that

“None but Jesus

Can do helpless sinners good,”

why, then, he has in substance said to you, “make haste, and come down!” and, sooner or later, you will sup with Him here, and be ultimately brought to one of the “many mansions” in the “Father’s house,” all of which favours are the effect of being “loved with a dateless love.”

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