Note 19 at Col. 1:22: Our holiness, blamelessness, and unreproveableness is in His sight. God is a Spirit and sees us through our new born-again spirit. Therefore, these three qualities are in our spirit, not our flesh. If we are only looking for these things in the physical realm, we will be disappointed and can even fall into unbelief that the Lord has really effected these changes in us.

Our born-again spirit is already righteous and truly holy (see notes 17-18 at Eph. 4:24, p. 1123). This should be reflected in our physical lives but as long as we are in this world, it will never manifest itself to the degree that it has already happened in our spirit. Praise the Lord that He sees us in Christ, i.e. in the spirit.