Nail in a Sure Place: When the Roman soldiers drove their
four-and-one-half-inch crucifixion spikes into their victim’s flesh, they did
so first in the open palm. But because
the weight of the body might tear that flesh and not sustain the burden to be
carried, they also drove nails into the wrist, down in the nexus of bones and
sinews that would not tear no matter what the weight. Thus, the nail in the wrist was the “nail in
a sure place.” Once it was removed and the Savior was “cut down,” the burden of
the crucified body (more literally, the burden of the Atonement) was brought to
an end.
In terms of salvation, Christ is the Nail in a Sure
Place—never failing, never faltering, every the most certain and reliable force
in eternity. For this we surely “hang
upon him all the glory of his father’s house” (Jeffrey R. Holland, Witness for His Name, pg. 113).
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