God sees me, knows me and STILL loves me anyway

I am thankful that the God of the universe knows me.  He doesn't merely know of me, or about me....He knows me.

"Your eyes saw my unformed body.  All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be." ~ Psalm 139:16

I don't marvel at this fact nearly enough.  Before I was even born into this world, God had me in His heart & mind.  He even already had a plan to bring me to salvation!  Even though He knew how I would sin and wander and continually fall short of His standard.  Even after 34 years of walking with Him, I've barely begun to know Him and yet He knows me entirely.  I have stumbled, fallen, rebelled, ignored Him, mistrusted Him, discounted His grace, doubted His forgiveness, disobeyed, and flat-out withheld my heart from Him, at times.  But, even so, He chose me to be His.

He is "El Roi", the God who sees me.....ALL of me; the good, the bad and the ugly.
And He loves me completely.
Praise Him!  What a wonderful reality to be faced with.
Thank you, LORD!