“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” — Jeremiah 1:5, NIV
Although being known by God is, in itself, very awe-inspiring, what makes it even more so is the fact that He also chooses to love us. In Jeremiah 31:3, God says to His people “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Even with our mistakes, flaws, secrets and pain that God knows everything about, He still adores us.
He does not see us and think that we are no longer worthy, or that we are too weird, too broken, too crazy, too shy, etc. He still accepts us, knowing who we are.
This means we do need not bombard ourselves with shame and stress at the idea that God knows our “inmost being” (Psalm 139:13). Rather, we can embrace the fact that God knows us and still continues to love us.
Nothing we could do in the past, present or future could make God decide not to love us or to give up on us. Romans 8:38–39 says, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” His love for us is unconditional.