This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
We are presented without spot or without wrinkle now. You stand complete in Christ. This is not reserved for after death. It is now for those in Christ.
We know we are Righteous.
We don’t try to be Righteous, anymore than a man has to try to be a man.
We are what God has made us to be – His own Righteousness.