God wants a 'Relationship'?

Over the years, mainly online, I've come across many Christians who have said that "God wants a relationship with you", or words to that effect. Um... excuse me? What? Seriously?
Now maybe my inability to understand this idea is due to the fact that when it has come to relationships in real life I haven't exactly been all that successful, or it could simply be that I'm just not interpreting correctly whatever it is they're trying to tell me, and the message is going right over my head, or in some other way getting scrambled.
However, assuming that they actually mean what they say, and they mean it [i]literally[/i], I have to admit that this makes no sense whatsoever, and is, quite frankly, rather naive, narcissistic and rather bizarre. The creator of [i][b]the entire universe[/b][/i] (i.e. all of reality as we know it) wouldn't care about the minor details to the extent that He (or She - whatev) would stoop so low as to, for example, answer prayers.
I mean, seriously, do you care about the ants on the concrete you walk all over when you're on your way to the local shops? Does a microbiologist want a "relationship" with the microbes under his or her microscope?

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LadyGrace ·

A relationship with God carries us beyond simply obeying external rules of right and wrong.

Jesus invites us, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest…learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Bellatrix2083 · F

@LadyGrace But how do you have a relationship with an abstraction? I can't have a relationship with the number 2, for example.

LadyGrace ·

@Bellatrix2083 I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean? God is a real person.

Bellatrix2083 · F

@LadyGrace How can God be a person? People are born, have serious flaws, evolve, die, are limited in physical space, can't be in more than one location at a time; in other words are what the theologians call 'contingent'. God must, of necessity, be non-contingent or necessary.

LadyGrace ·

@Bellatrix2083 yes but that's people's limited thinking. Humans limited thinking. We cannot put a limit on God because he is Limitless and Way Beyond what we could imagine. However he is a real person and nothing is impossible for God. He saved my daughter from dying when all the nurses and the doctors said there was nothing more they could do to save her. They told her she would be dead in a week. All her organs were shutting down already so there was nothing they could do, and death seemed certain, but we are a Praying family and we pray to God and believed him for a miracle and that's exactly what we got. He healed her and she still alive to this day and that happened about 5 years ago. I even have records and pictures to prove it. There's no way she could have lived unless God helped her. We shouldn't limit God.