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Our Lord Jesus Christ said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you," [Matthew 6:33; Luke 12:31]. Hence our first concern is essentially establishing our relationship with God before anything else.
This is simply logical since God is the maker and source of all things, and it is also in His power to provide us anything that we need. We only need to ask and ask properly. Therefore, if we could establish a strong relationship with the One who could provide all that we need, then we need not seek far and wide just to be able to get our fill. For as the Lord also said, "The Father knows what we need before we ask of Him."
God Himself actually, in creating us, has made the first move to relate with others outside of Himself. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states,
"God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength." [Prologue I.1]
We are therefore merely making a response to His initiative when we seek Him in order to establish a relationship with Him. We are not doing God a favor. Instead, we are being given the chance to experience and enjoy His generosity when we relate with Him. God does not need us in order to BE. But because of His infinite love and generosity, He wanted others to enjoy His blessed life, as stated above. it is because of His great love that He opens the gates of Paradise to everyone who would respond to His call to live that blessed life with Him. Such love did not only make Him create us but also, when we were mired in the mud of sinfulness, led Him to send His only begotten Son "so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have an eternal life" writes the Apostle John [3:16].
God does not want anyone to perish. If it was His intention, He would not have created us in the first place. He would not have sent His only begotten Son to save us from our sins. He would not have sent the Holy Spirit to be our Advocate. He would not have established the Church to become the continuing presence of His salvific acts. He would not have sent many Saints to become light of the world and salt of the earth.
We are therefore being called and challenged to respond to God's love by establishing a very close relationship with Him - something that no other god or idol since the beginning of time and even until now has done - even giving us the grace to become His children and friends in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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