Worship Image: Hail to the Victors!
Picture this, you are hunched over a 15 inch computer monitor overlooking espn.com realtime scores as Michigan makes an incredible comeback from a 19-0 deficit. You can imagine the room is tense and you can hear a pin drop falling in the back of the room. Then you see the webpage automatically refresh itself to show that Michigan has won the game, and an uproar fills the room of the news of sweet victory!!!
Well, maybe not. Michigan did win, and I retired to my room quiet and solemn, being the lone Wolverine fan on campus. In contrast, the victory held in Ann Arbor must have been quite different. There was no silent moment of meditation, no reflection of how technically and tactically effective a certain play was at that very key moment. No, that job is for those who sit behind desks and get paid to share their thoughts. No, in the Big House a very different thought must have been running in people’s minds. We won! It’s over! Victory! And with conditioned training, the words, “Hail to the Victors!” may come to mind, because we were victorious, and that’s something to be said this season.
An athlete may raise his arms, representing the strength and effort that was called for in such a victory. Or he may stretch out his arms declaring that the race is finished. A soldier may hold up his standard high declaring the battle is won. Much like these, the worshipper declares all this and much more. The worshipper knows that victory is achieved, the work is finished, the battle is won. He is able to raise his hands in light of that.
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