Vindicated at the Cross

My family is currently into a game called "Vindication" in which each player is a 'disreputable scumbag', tossed overboard by their shipmates, and left to die in the raging sea. However, as fate would have it, each of us were revived after washing ashore on a deserted island. Now, each of us is seeking to use this 'second chance in life' to become the most honorable person on the island! Although the game itself is jolly fun, I am eternally thankful that this isn't how God deals with me as a sinner. Our worth is not measured by how well we perform as a Christian, but by the price that Jesus paid for us on the cross. Our good works could never vindicate us in the eyes of God. Only Christ can do that...and He did! I was once a 'disreputable scumbag', but now I am redeemed. Forgiven. Honored. Vindicated. Only because of Jesus.