Jesus seeks out the sinner

 Jesus says, “I pursue sinners along all their paths... Tell sinners that I am always waiting for them, that I listen intently to the beating of their heart ... when will it beat for Me? I am speaking to them through their remorse of conscience, through their failures and sufferings, through thunderstorms, through the voice of the Church."
(Diary- Divine Mercy in My Soul, 1728)  This is why Our Lord is in a walking position: because He reminds us of the Father of the Prodigal Son.
          Do you remember that parable of Our Lord? Jesus explains that the son told his dad, “I want my inheritance now!” And the father in the story respected his son’s free will, just as Our Heavenly Father respects our free will. He gave him his inheritance. The son left home, wasting the money away on immoral living.

              The father, in his great love, never told his son not to return, that he never wanted to see him again. On the contrary, he was searching for his son everyday!  It was the father who spotted the son in the distance returning home, and he ran out to greet him. He embraced his son and he kissed him! Because there’s more joy in heaven over one repentant sinner than over the ninety-nine who have no need of repentance. (Luke 15:7)  Jesus is searching for us! We are all sinners. He says we all need His mercy. “I have opened My Heart as a living fountain of mercy.  Let all souls draw life from it. Let them approach this sea of mercy with great trust. Sinners will attain justification and the just will be confirmed in good." (Diary, 1520)   Jesus is offering His mercy to all. He says, "On the cross, the fountain of My Mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls -- no one have I excluded!”   (Diary, 1182)  Jesus in this Divine Mercy image is showing us that from His pierced Heart, blood and water gushed out from the cross. When that blood and water gushed forth, the Catholic Church was born. This is when heaven was opened for us. This is the moment of our redemption. Jesus is reminding us of this—that He shed His precious blood for us, and that He wants to seek out and save that which was lost.