Psalm 37:6 English Standard Version (ESV) He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

John 1:5 English Standard Version (ESV) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Genesis 1:4 English Standard Version (SEV) And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

Light good, darkness separated from good. God did not declare darkness bad but rather separate from good. In the psalm light is connected to justice, the ability to see things for what they truly are because no one can hide from the light. Darkness cannot prevail.

Black has come to represent negative judgment, a convicting judgment simply because nothing can be found in darkness.

When we see everything in black and white, it means we are judgmental. There are no gray areas. Things are either right or wrong. Sin is not a matter of judgment, it is an act. Actions have consequences no matter if they are just or sinful. Good acts render good results, sin has the opposite effect. 

Here is the problem with seeing everything in black and white, it has nothing to do with how we act.

Romans 7:15 English Standard Version (ESV) For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Judgment is a function of the mind but does not rule the heart. Judgment does not always choose to do what is right. There is more at stake here than right and wrong. It is the struggle between flesh and spirit for the control of acts. Living a life of faith begins with hearing what we are asked to do without judging what is asked of us. Judgment can only interfere with faith.

Romans 7:24-25 English Standard Version

24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

If that is confusing, know that you are not alone.