Judging the world and the things in it.

[Franktalk]

It came to my mind today why Jesus and the Father do not want us to judge. I was trying to see things through their eyes. Here they have made a greater reality called heaven and a lessor reality called the temporal world. For some reason it is important for us to learn many things in the temporal world that God does not want in heaven. He has set up an environment of composite opposites in the temporal world so we can learn light from darkness. Our job is to experience the temporal world but not become part of it. So how does God know when we have embraced the temporal world? One way is to see if we have become so attached to the temporal world that we care about the outcomes of this world and we care about temporal events. We may also care about temporal governments, religious institutions, and personal relationships in the temporal world more than our quest to return to heaven.

I think this is why Jesus said that father or mother should not be placed before Him. There is nothing in the temporal world worth delaying our return to the Father. When we judge we are saying we care about the temporal world. We are saying that we have an attachment to this place. To the degree we are attached then to that degree we are thrown back into the temporal world. This relates to the scriptures that say as we judge we shall be judged.

For me this thought has unlocked many passages that now seem to me to carry a common theme which seemed diverse. So when we are able to not judge the world it is a measure that we do not care for this place and wish to leave. But it is not easy. The whole world is set up to draw us in. The world is our friend as we embrace the world and hates us as we move away from the world. The world hated Jesus because He was of the Father and walked in the Spirit.

Anyway just some scriptural study. Any comments?