If you were seeking God, it was because He was pursuing you first!

Psalm 10:4 – In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

John 3:20 – “For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.”

Isaiah 65:1 – “I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.

Isaiah 64:7 – There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.

Romans 3:10-12 – “no one seeks for God.”

God is the first cause:

John 3:3   Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:  13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Eph. 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Rom’s 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Luke 15:4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?”

John 6:37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.