As I watch football games on TV, I often marvel at the sheer number of people who have come to fill up these stadiums, often 80,000 \u201d\u201c 100,000 people, cheering on their teams with raucous intensity. And then throughout the day, I\u2019ll see other games played at other stadiums around the country, all equally large, equally full, and equally loud, hailing their heroes\u2019 momentary victories.<\/p>\n
Yet then I read of heaven, where people of all tribes and languages, from all nationalities and all races around the world, and even from across the centuries\u201d\u201dall of us who have believed in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior\u201d\u201dwill be around the throne of God, worshipping the Lamb. It will be a crowd far larger than the sum of those \u201cmighty\u201d\u009d stadium crowds, but all dressed in our team color\u201d\u201dwhite\u201d\u201dand all cheering for our great Hero.<\/p>\n
Jesus will be our hero because he is the one who got us there, for \u201cSalvation belongs to him!\u201d\u009d He will be our hero because it is by his blood that our robes, rightly filthy rags, will be washed white.<\/p>\n