I think love has something to do with suspending judgment, someone once told me. But the suspension implies something temporary, implies that judgment is the norm. How much do the people who love us (or say they love us) judge us, whether through their silence or their apathy? Should that question even matter, when we do the same. Should that question matter when it has been commanded of us, Consider others as more important than yourselves.
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Does God suspend His judgment when He loves us? I am more inclined to think that learning to love involves learning to judge (and be judged) rightly. Our aversion to being judged is the inevitable product of our pat, diseased moralism. If God is both Justice and Mercy, can He be only one at a time? Do your parents cease to love you when they send you to your room? Do they only love you when they stop themselves from sending you?
The kind of judgment I'm talking about manifests itself in silence and apathy. It is not discipline, or rebuke. It is--I don't care about you anymore because you don't live up to my standards, or you are no longer interesting to me.
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