{"id":39690,"date":"2026-03-23T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39690"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:09:55","slug":"26-0323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0323\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Hand, God\u2019s Nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39691 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260323_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260323_1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260323_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>God has penned a list of our faults.\u00a0 The list God has made, however, cannot be read.\u00a0 The words can\u2019t be deciphered.\u00a0 The mistakes are covered. The sins are hidden. Those at the top are hidden by His hand; those down the list are covered by His blood. Your sins are blotted out by Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible says, \u201cHe has forgiven you all your sins: He has utterly wiped out the written evidence of broken commandments which always hung over our heads, and has completely annulled it by nailing it to the cross\u201d (JB Phillips NT).<\/p>\n<p>He knew the source of those sins was you, and since He couldn\u2019t bear the thought of eternity without you, Jesus Himself chose the nails. The hand is the hand of God. The nail is the nail of God. And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nails, the doors of heaven opened for you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39467\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-unnamed-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=1c377a84be&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D1c377a84be%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1772583866612000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0df-PrEkRsQJ3BHvDcyXZU\"><em>He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God has penned a list of our faults.  The list God has made, however, cannot be read.  The words can\u2019t be deciphered.  The mistakes are covered. The sins are hidden. Those at the top are hidden by His hand; those down the list are covered by His blood. Your sins are blotted out by Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible says, \u201cHe has forgiven you all your sins: He has utterly wiped out the written evidence of broken commandments which always hung over our heads, and has completely annulled it by nailing it to the cross\u201d (JB Phillips NT).<\/p>\n<p>He knew the source of those sins was you, and since He couldn\u2019t bear the thought of eternity without you, Jesus Himself chose the nails. The hand is the hand of God. The nail is the nail of God. And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nails, the doors of heaven opened for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39692,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690\/revisions\/39692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}