Not going to lie, I had a lot ideas as well as a lot of troubles with this secret. I remember I was sitting at my computer at my dining room table thinking of some really awesome secrets; Spiritual Discernment, Friendship, even things like Forgetting and Not Regretting but once I started to type those idea’s I found myself at a loss for words. One day I hope to write them but for that moment of time I was sitting at the table clicking my new French Manicure against the wood table. I got the expensive stuff because I want my manicure to last but it was then when the idea literally clicked. I know the secrets to perfect nails.
Literally the whole idea of nail care is a ridicules concept to me, I mean the only reason I got the nails in the first place is because it was my little sister’s birthday. If it wasn’t that factor I wouldn’t have gotten them. But it makes me think about Jesus and I wondered ‘If Jesus was perfect, did that include nails?’ The answer, I’m not sure. But I do know that Jesus did have perfect nails the day when he showed his brothers and sisters the ultimate sign of obedience. The nails that I’m referring to are the ones that held him to the cross. Those to me are perfect nails. The nails needed to help wipe our debt clean.
A lot of people view the cross as a symbol of ultimate love. Christians often wear it around there necks to show their faith in Christ, when 9/11 happened two steel rods in the shape of the cross remained in the rubble reassuring Christians of the hope and promise of the resurrections, and crosses are often used in hospitals to inspire there team of doctors to love and there patients to hope. I’m not saying that the cross doesn’t mean all of those things, but to me the cross has a completely different meaning.
To me the cross is not a symbol of love but rather obedience. When I wear a cross I’m proclaiming to my God that “I will serve you my Lord, even to death on a cross.” I believe the symbol of love rests in the Man who was nailed to the cross. I know if any human was asked to give their lives to the ransom of the many, we would have said, ‘No.’ But Jesus replied, ‘Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13 NIV) Did you read that friends? There is NO GREATER LOVE than this: to lay down ONE’S life for ONE’S FRIENDS.” He gave EVERYTHING for us, without hesitation. If Jesus was willing to lay down his life for his friends, what do you think God is willing to do for us? That’s why I think those nails are so perfect. They held Jesus to the cross. It was like the pen Jesus used to sign his life for ours.
Those nails were intended for us, and let me tell you they would have been far less perfect that Jesus’ nails were. Our contracts wouldn’t have been in our favor, it would basically be us signing our life to misery. It may not be what we what but we chose to live a certain way, and we fall because we aren’t perfect. But Jesus was flawless; the nails that pierced him truly pierced perfection. Jesus was 100% man and 100% God meaning, he was a full guy. No wonder Jesus did miracles and love everyone, he would have exploded if he didn’t (or this is my theory of it). Sometimes I wonder if Jesus bleeds pure, not red blood but white. Being human, he would bleed red but in God I can see white.
Jesus blood wipes our sinful hearts white, like bleach removes stains on white clothing. Those nails, the things that helped make the prophecy of Jesus our new reality I think are perfect nails. The cross is a symbol of ultimate obedience, and Jesus, the man/God himself is the symbol and example of perfect and pure love. Jesus chose his death because he wanted us to have new life. His blood is on our contracts; Satan has no power over us because he got the perfect sacrifice. Because Jesus was perfect he couldn’t be in hell, but he did conquer it along with death, sickness and any demonic spirit that roams the earth. He closed the gap for us allowing a way to get to heaven. I pray for you my brothers and sisters that we all come to know the perfect sacrifice and salvation that we have obtained through our Lord Jesus and the God that we serve. God Bless!!
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