What is God’s Judgment Now?

If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.

This is our God, the one who judges all people impartially.  This too is what was passed on to Jesus, judging all people impartially.  And Peter is calling upon his readers to invoke this Father.  What if they screw up?  And, being human, they are going to screw up.  They will be judged, impartially, but judged. 

The readers are being told to gear up to serve the Lord, to proclaim Christ crucified, by whose death and resurrection mercy is granted to all, except apparently to these readers who are called to invoke the God of the impartial judgment.

Now, I am coming at this from a point of view that impartial judgment is bad for us because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  Peter did not say that, Paul did.  But what if ‘impartial’ is not a bad thing?

‘The one who judges all people impartially’, what if that is judgment according to the mercy of the Lord?  Judgment was fundamentally changed with the resurrection of Jesus.  Forgiveness came through His sacrifice.  What if the mercy is the impartiality of the Lord?  Then there is not fear but love in the invocation of the Lord.  Might recast the entire verse.