Triumphant

This past week, I was reading about the difference between victory and triumph. Now, stay with me on this brief journey. I'm about to share a revelation I had about each of these!

Victory. What does it mean to you? Maybe you won something you had been training for. Maybe you accomplished something you had never before done. Maybe it was in a life situation or court. Maybe it was victory over a relationship, finances, a breakthrough, or healing. Here's what the Webster's Dictionary calls VICTORY:

Now, what about triumph. What does it mean to triumph? Is it the same as victory? Not at all. While victory is the winning or the overcoming against odds or difficulty, triumph surpasses that! The second and third meanings are what I want to look at.

So victory is gaining mastery, success, even winning! And triumph is the after party, basically! Okay, hold on! Here's where it gets really good!!

In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the apostles recount Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. You may recall it as "the triumphal entry"! Those who followed Jesus, gave him such a reception, didn't they? They spread clothing and palm branches along the road to celebrate his coming.
What I have recently realized is that Jesus celebrated His victory on the cross--before He even had seen it! He had the vision! He knew what was coming, and He and the "multitudes" celebrated that victory ahead of it. Isn't that amazing?!

I believe that you look at Palm Sunday and the Triumphant Entry in a new way! I hope this inspires you to celebrate your own victories, triumphantly, even before you see them with earthly eyes!


Lyn~
Come for the journey, stay for the friendship!