Second, God’s imprint makes it possible for us to have a friendship with God. This is not a friendship of equals, to be sure. My daughters and I are friends, but we are not peers. In the same way, God is still King. He is still our Sovereign. That will never change. But he can also be our friend. Our King is not distant like a royal, but close like a father. This is what people mean when they say they have a “relationship” with God. It is the kind of friendship he intended from the beginning. It is what we were made for.
