The scary thing about God

The scary thing about God is that He sees every part of us. He sees the parts of us that we share with the world, and more importantly He sees both the truth and the lie(s) in what we choose to share. He sees all the best parts of us: our talents, qualities, passions, interests, little quirks, the things that make us happy. He designed all of these, which is a breathtaking thought when we pause long enough to consider it. He sees the more secret parts of us, that we keep just for ourselves. Our insecurities, doubts, fears, things we struggle with or don’t get quite right, those things we just aren’t all that good at. Scarier still, He sees the very darkest parts of us that sometimes we don’t even fully see, or acknowledge anyway. Those parts you wish you cut out completely, the things you struggle to look directly in the eye. He sees those harmful qualities (like jealousy or anger), those bitter thoughts, those hurtful actions or words.

What is scariest for me of all these things that He can see within us, is our truest heart. God can see things in my heart that I try to ignore or pretend don’t exist. He sees every motive and every thought behind every action, or lack of action. Every decision I make, He can see what is actually behind it. He can see the times; and there are many, when I choose to make something a priority in my life that is only taking me away from Him and His path for me. He sees the mistakes I make and try to brush under the carpet or erase from my memory. He sees the times I am too stubborn to admit I was wrong and apologise. He sees the times I am proud, and not in a healthy way. He sees the times I could offer to help but choose not to inconvenience myself. He sees the destructive things I’ve done in the past. He sees my every thought process, and knows full well the times I know I should turn and run from something as fast and far as I can but choose to move cautiously closer and test the boundaries. He sees how reckless I can be, and how incredibly selfish. He sees my need for approval and acceptance from people instead of in Him. He sees my endless searching for happiness and fulfillment in this world around me instead of in Him.

He knows me better than anyone, and this will always be true no matter how much I let someone into my heart. I read a verse yesterday that really struck me: “He made their hearts, so He understands everything they do.” (Psalm 34:15) I believe God made me for so much more than these negative things I allow to grow in my heart, but I also believe He created this very heart and loves it regardless of the mess I make of it. Better yet, He can heal what needs healed and restore what I’ve broken. God’s “unfailing love” can do incredible things, and His light will always be able to drive out any darkness we are hiding or holding onto.

The scary thing about God is that He sees every single part of us, even the ones we don’t want anyone to see. The beautiful, life-changing thing about God is that He loves us anyway.

I dont find this scary. It is the best thing for us. While it's true that God sees the things we want to hide or ignore, this is good. He knows where we struggle and hurt the most. And God, being a healer, has insight into what we need most. He can bring us into things we would never be brave enough to do on our own. And through this we grow and heal and mature. If He didn't know us so deeply He would never be able to work for our favor so effectively.

Also it Allows for more grace, I believe. When we are actively striving to grow in Him and live rightly, but we screw up, God is able to see our hearts and motives and recognize that we aren't rebelling or that we don't care, but that we simply messed up. Without Him seeing into us as He does this would not be possible.

So I dont see it as scary, but beautiful and in our favor.

God loves you more than you can imagine. I don't think you should be fearful of him knowing all about you. Just as a husband married to his wife, the church will be married to Christ.

perfect love casteth out fear

Proverbs 9:10 - Fear of the LORD is the foundation of wisdom

Psalms 33:8 - Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

Psalms 25:14 - The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 - The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

There are many more.

Fearing God is scriptural, in the proper context.
But only those with impure hearts should fear that God can see their hearts.

I agree with the other posters, this is something marvelous. God is the only one who REALLY knows us, knows all those hideous things we would not utter to another human soul, yet He loves us still and loves us more than anyone else can ever possibly love us. This is something to rejoice about, not to bring you fear. He knows every hair on our heads, and every thought in it. It is something to cause us to love him more. There is a song with the line "He knew me, YET he loved me."

I think you are realizing that you are accountable to Him for all of your actions. You will soon find that this is a guiding Light rather than a restriction. He sees your flaws and darkness so that he can help you repent and heal.

I know in the very beginning of the journey of faith, I felt afraid at times that God sees everything that NONE, not even our closest friends and families knew about. But, today this is why, we live by Faith in the Son whom we have received 2 Corinthians 5:21 ...Hebrew 4:16 We cant fully grasp God's love, but we can come as we are without fear to know this is the very reason Jesus came...so we can have fellowship with him our Father. That separation we have because of sin and Adam's disobedience we now come thru Jesus.