Where There's A Will There's a Way

Luke 19:2  And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. 

Luke 19:3  And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. 

Luke 19:4  And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way. 

Jesus was at the height of His popularity. 

Wherever He moved the narrow streets were crowded. 

It would have taken a Saul to have seen Him well...

There seemed no hope for a small man like Zacchaeus...

And had Zacchaeus had a small heart in his bosom, he would have gone home and said it was impossible. 

But Zacchaeus had had a great will to grow rich, and he had found there was a way to that...

And now he had a great will to see Jesus, and he was not the sort of person to be stopped. 

He quite forgot himself, says Matthew Henry. 

He climbed the sycamore like a schoolboy. 

Perhaps he had heard that except we become as children we cannot see the kingdom of heaven-or the King. 

At any rate he was earnestly bent on seeing Jesus, and as a result he saw Him and was seen. 

All of which has been written down to teach us that the whole-hearted search for God is always crowned. 

What texts lay stress on that? 

Mat 7:7  Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Pro 8:17  I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

~George H. Morrison