God is About Relationships

God is a creator, an engineer, an imagineer, a provider, a sustainer of life, and so much more. But He is very much relationship-oriented. That's why He uses relationship metaphors when He talks about you and all of His people.

God wants to be your:

Friend
Father
Brother

The following table contains a small fraction of the multitude of places He speaks about relationships.

Relationship Type	Verse	Reference
Friend	And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.	James 2:23
Children of God	Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.	1 John 3:2
	See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.	1 John 3:1
	and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection.	Luke 20:36
	Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God	John 1:12
	For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.	Romans 8:14
	So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith,	Galatians 3:26
Brother	Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.	Hebrews 2:11
	Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers.	Matthew 12:49
	"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.	Matthew 23:8
	Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."	Matthew 28:10