Loving every bit of someone

In Chris Tomlin's song Indescribable (linked at the end of this post), he has this lyric:

"You see the depths of my heart/
And you love me the same"

To me, the difference between real love and not-so-real love is this: when you find out something bad about another person (something from their past that they are ashamed/embarrassed about, a fault that they are trying so hard to overcome but they are struggling, with, etc), do you love them more than when you didn't know about it, or do you love them less?

With God, we know that He sees the depths of our heart and He loves us the same (and even more, when we are at our weakest and we need Him the most, that is when He is closest to us). Many times this is the opposite of the human reaction to a situation, and as a result is causes us to not be ourselves, or to cause others to not be themselves.

At the beginning of most relationships, we act like how we think the other person would want us to act, or in a matter that is socially acceptable so that the other person likes us. This is especially true in romantic relationships. We might think, "If they knew this about me, they would think it was weird and leave." Or, "I'll tell them this eventually, but not yet." And then, when you finally do share it with them (or vice versa), you find that instead of running for the hills, you find that they love you all the more because you opened yourself and shared things with them that you didn't want to share. This is love.

We won't ever see the depths of another person's heart in this life (much as we or someone else opens up, ultimately it is likely only God really knows the depths of a person's heart, and maybe, if they're lucky, the person themselves), but we still have the opportunity to love all that we can of a person. We don't have to tolerate faults, but we can still love a person because they have faults, because they are human, because they are deserving of our love, no matter what they have done or who they are. This is truly loving every bit of someone, which is loving how God loves.