Miss Salvation Beauty Pageant
The Miss Universe beauty pageant is a good illustration of salvation. Each participating country would send their own representative beauty queen to the contest. If she wins, they all win. They do not win because of their own beauty and brains, no, they win through her. It's her beauty and brains that won it for them. She alone did it all.
In the same way, a sinner is not saved because of what he or she did. No, a sinner is saved because of the Lord Jesus Christ. He became Man to be our representative and substitute. He alone did it all on the cross of Calvary.
None of us is beautiful enough in God's eyes to win the Miss Salvation beauty contest, so to speak. We are all sinners---spiritual hags. But we have Christ, and the moment we put our trust in Him, His victory is our victory, we are saved.
