If God had something in mind for man then He surely must have created him according to that intention. In other words, if God planned to have a special relationship with man then there should be something special about how God created him.
Zech. 12:1 says, "Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him". This verse clearly tells us that created man with a spirit within him. It also strongly implies that God's intention in creating the heavens was for the earth, that the earth is for man, and that the crucial thing about man is that he has a human spirit.
Gen. 2:7 gives the details concerning the process of God's creation of man. It says, "Jehovah God formed man with the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul." First of all God formed man with the dust of the ground. Obviously, it is man's body that was formed out of the dust and that returns to dust after a person dies (Gen. 3:19). Second, God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. What was that? It is not at all obvious in English but in Hebrew the word for breath, "neshamah", can mean "breath" or "spirit". In other words, God formed the spirit of man within him by breathing into his nostrils the breath of life.
Then the last part of this verse tells us that man became a living soul. When God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life something else was produced, man's soul. Man's soul is man's person in three aspects: his mind with its thoughts, his emotion with its feelings, and his will with its intentions. Thus God created man with three main parts, a body, a soul, and a spirit (1 Thes. 5:23).
It is relatively easy to understand something about our body because it is physical and tangible. It is also relatively easy to understand something about the soul because we use it all the time. In fact, our soul is our real person. Our body can be considered as the organ which enables us to live in and relate to the physical world. But what about our spirit? What is it and what is its function? Our spirit is that part of our being that is the same in essence as God Himself. God is Spirit and our spirit is also spirit. Of course, God is divine and our spirit is human; nevertheless both are the same in essence.
God created us in this way so that we could receive Him (John 1:12). Temporarily man's fall became a problem between God and man but God took care of that by coming as a man, Christ Jesus, and dying on the cross to take away all our sins. If a person does receive the Lord then He comes to dwell in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) and to communicate with us through our spirit (Rom. 8:16). Thus God's relationship with man is not merely as a creator with a creature but He wants to be everything to man (Jer. 2:13). God wants us to receive Him!