God will seek us out, but he won’t force us to return. That’s a choice he leaves to us. He wants us to return, but we have to be ready. We have to get to the point where we say, with the lost son (whose story can be found later in Luke 15), I’m tired of being lost and unhappy. When we’re ready to return, then God will carry us joyfully and safely home on his shoulders. Heaven will rejoice with him.