What isn't is

DEVOTION
ROMANS

WHAT ISN’T IS

Rom 4:17
the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were
NIV
What an incredible thought, to be in relationship with God who has the ability to call things that are not as though they were, is almost beyond my understanding. Yet I think of the fact he spoke all this, I live in, into existence from nothing. The Lord my God can make the dead alive, he can call nothing to something. So, how do I relate this to me, of what value, what lesson do I glean from this profound truth within this verse? Could it be that he calls me something I am not? Could it be he calls me righteous when I am truly not? If righteousness is the quality of state of being righteous, and righteous is acting in an upright, moral way, having virtue or being virtuous, then surely the only way God calls me thus, is because I believe him, it is because of what Jesus Christ did on that cross for me, and the fact I believe that is true, because of faith, not because I am actually righteous, not because I actually have the ability to walk one hundred percent of the time pure and holy, without failures, without sin.
God calls me that which I am not.
Thank you Lord, for your love and your forgiveness and your grace and mercy