What is righteousness?

Righteousness is the authenticity of being who you want to be in your present moment. By creating it in your being nature now you are authentic. By creating it in your present conception of yourself, your identity, and your emotions,  you are in the present moment, in fact, what you want to be.

By being who you want to be in belief, thought and emotion, you manifest that state of consciousness as your physical reality. Creation is immediate on the spiritual plane, but there are degrees of time-lag before full physical manifestation is apparent.