This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

Adam disobeyed God and tried to own for himself the knowledge of good and evil and was kicked out of earthly paradise.  God sends his very own son to teach us true good and evil and to lead us to the heavenly paradise and we reject him and murder him.

"We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn." (Matthew 11.17)

The light has come into the world and we chose to remain in darkness so we can continue to do evil; so that we avoid the pain of remorse, the sting of a guilty conscience.  This then is the judgment.  A deeper, more subtle judgment than Matthew 25.31-36 where we are told "you did this, you didn't do that."  Before that judgment even arrives, "those who do not believe are condemned already" (John 3.18) because they refuse to believe in Christ the Light.

The light has come into the world but we prefer the world.  We prefer distractions, amusements, pleasures and riches.  We want to hear nothing about the narrow and difficult way back to paradise so accustomed have we become to our habitual state of sinning in the darkness.  Even the good have deceived themselves into thinking they can love the world and Christ both (even though he declared the two "enemies") by floating a thought or two of Christ toward heaven, perhaps a prayer or good deed on occasion.  They think "God loves me and it will be well with me at the end."  These people were prophesied by Christ when he said "in some, thorns will choke and kill their produce," those thorns being the "cares and riches and pleasures of life." (Luke 8.14)

The light has come into the world and it sits untouched on the bookshelves of all the world's bookstores.  It sits, lost and forgotten, in the trunks of people's homes.  It sits, enshrined but dusty, like some curious ancient relic in the homes of the nominal Christians.  The Word longs to take over our lives, to heal our sins and illuminate our hearts and minds, to be the one true love of our interior life.  "To become a spring in us gushing up to eternal life." (John 4.14)

"The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge." (John 12.48)