I know you're exactly right--Christ DOES seek us, and call us by name, and bring us to Him. He loves us and wants us to be His intimate friends, His brothers and sisters...He takes pleasure in our company, and not only loves us unto His death, but likes us in little daily ways. In Him we move and live and have our being.
I really like talking about this, but I hesitate...all of it is so incredibly important, I just don't want to open up a can of internet worms, so to speak, or get in big hairy theological discussions, or have someone laughing at the seeming contradictions which really are NOT contradictory in actual experience, or have people making fun of the deepest Mystery of existence...
For instance, I have rheumatoid arthritis, but I'm healed. Yes, I have the illness in my flesh, but that's just the way of humanity, every one of us our bodies fail and we die, but I am healed, and whole in Christ...see what I mean?
I sought Christ, but He called me first...another seeming contradiction, which isn't, really...
Anyway...