God is excited about your potential not your faults

God fully sees all your faults and flaws, yet he doesn't see them at all.

He sees them in that he's fully aware they exist.

Yet he doesn't see them at all i.e. they have no bearing on his infinite love for you and his absolute and complete commitment to your highest good if you are his child (i.e. you are in Christ).

In fact it is ¹because of his love and commitment to us he seeks to wean us from any and all faults or flaws that cause us or others harm (yet never holding those faults against us) or interfere with our drawing nearer to him and experiencing and participating in his love more fully. To say it simply from scripture, who he loves he disciplines. 

God views our faults and flaws much like loving parents with a toddler (or a child with a handicap). The lack of maturity (or presence of a flaw) is not off putting to loving parents. They are totally patient and kind. They see it as part of the growing up process, maybe even cute on occasion.

Loving parents don't chide their child when they take their first steps only to fall down again and again. No, they applaud their child for every successful step they make and encourage them to get up and try again and keep trying until they are great at it. 

They also look forward with equally ²eager anticipation to the day when their kid starts to run, or ride a bike or do gymnastics or play an instrument or sing a song or figure out a tough math problem or fix something broken or whatever else they reveal they are good at. 

They are ³always seeking to help their child grow and mature because they want her/him to experience the fullness of the joy of being all they are meant to be; the fullness of the potential they were born with and created for. They are excited to see how they will grow and to watch what strengths and characteristics will develop over time, and amazed/delighted as they do. 

So it is with God, our perfectly loving heavenly parent, toward us his imperfect but growing child. 

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¹in fact he could not address our practical/relational alienation from him until he addressed our legal/judicial alienation. It is only because we are no longer under condemnation due to Christ's removal of it, that God now takes up residence in us by his Spirit and reveals himself to us again, reawakening our hearts to his love for us. For more on this click here. 

²What about those who didn't have such perfect parents growing up?... 

You have one now. 

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. Psalm 27:10 (KJV) 

(CEV)  Even if my father and mother should desert me, you will take care of me.
(ERV)  Even if my mother and father leave me, the LORD will take me in.
(ESV)  For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.
(GNB)  My father and mother may abandon me, but the LORD will take care of me.

³And just like a good coach will push his student to go beyond what they may think they are capable of, so does God. God is cheering us on, believing in us and pushing us to grow to our greatest potential for our greatest joy and his highest glory.