A relationship with God develops the same way a relationship with someone you meet for the first time develops. It takes time.
First you meet each other, then you spend time together, then after a while you get to know each other - you become friends.
A solid relationship is built on trust, commitment, loyalty and devotion. Building a relationship with God happens the same way.
Today we're immersed in the quality of selfishness, seeking to benefit ourselves with no regard for others. However, God is the quality of bestowal/love of others/altruism, where a person seeks to benefit others instead of themselves.
Today we don't have a relationship with God because our internal qualities are opposite to God's quality. The only way we can have a relationship with God is if we change.
Keep in mind that God doesn't change, we're the ones who have to change. Also keep in mind that it's our internal qualities that have to change - our internal programming, our very nature.
Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal. We have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. The One True God, The Infinite God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the only one who can change your internal qualities. Ask Him for help and He'll change you.
Once our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, we'll enter into equivalence of form with The Creator. Our internal qualities will become similar to God's quality. In this way we'll establish a relationship with God and we'll get to know Him.
The more we're able to rise above our egos and seek to benefit others instead of ourselves, the more we'll get to know God because we'll be acting like Him in quality.
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