Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

Jehovah Tsidkenu; the Lord our righteousness.

Perhaps the most confusing of all interactions with our God is righteousness. This is because of the definition as it applies to Jesus Christ, being right, not only being right but being right always. Do I feel right all the time? No, of course not, we all make mistakes. I constantly have to come before the cross to confess my condition and lay my sins down. Not so with Christ.

Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

That is a declarative state, an accounting, and what other accounting term is declared to us? Justification.

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Romans 3:25-27 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

To declare His righteousness, this is a declarative state. God said so therefore it is, to God. Not so much to us if we do not have a proper understanding of God, His personality and His character.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Righteousness for us is both declarative and positional because we are in Christ and any righteousness in us is Him.