These nails.
I just can’t get past them.
They fixed You to a cross beam
And they fixed my heart to the same.
These nails.
They speak of a love so violent
That the heavens were veiled that day
and the earth reeled and trembled.
These nails.
They are hope and confidence.
They opened eternity’s door
And bade me come up higher.
These nails.
They were the price tag for You to have me.
They set my value far higher
than I have ever deserved.
These nails.
They are my redemption.
They are my stability and my ransom.
They leave me humbled by love.
These nails.
I never want to get so deep,
so big, so busy, so self-important
That I stop looking at these nails.