When it’s based and developed with God’s word.
What a solid confidence, that you and the Lord walk as friends the whole of your days earthward. He walks with you, and He talks with you, and You walk with Him, and you talk with Him. Almost like the days before the fall, God’s children have the opportunity to enjoy it all. But development is a vital part, giving you the agility to overcome the attacks of the enemy.
John 15:14-15King James Version
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.