When God looks at us...

...he sees what we can become by His grace.

God did not tell us to call those things which exist as they exist. 

What is the point of stating the obvious? It is not going to change anything. No, 

God tells us to call those things which do not exist as though they did, and they will!

Romans 4:17 …God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;