If we chain our image of God up in only a courtroom, we’ll never experience how He courts us with lovingkindness, frees us from aloneness for oneness, drops all the sentences against us to write us into a saving love story, line after tender line. If we only know God as the holy Judge and right-making King who sacrificed and saved us, we may give Him love for all of that. But if we intimately know Him as the ultimate Lover, Father, Husband, Brother, who is the King and Judge who sacrificed and saved us, we may love Him with all that we are.
