Trivial Pursuit
The prince of Grenada, an heir to the Spanish crown, was
sentenced to life in solitary confinement in Madrid's
ancient prison called "The Place of the Skull." The fearful,
dirty, and dreary nature of the place earned it the name.
Everyone knew that once you were in, you would never come
out alive. The prince was given one book to read the entire
time -- the Bible. With only one book to read, he read it
over hundreds and hundreds of times. The book became his
constant companion.
After thirty-three years of imprisonment, he DIED! When they
came in to clean out his cell, they found some notes he had
written using nails to mark the soft stone of the prison
walls. The notations were of this sort: Psalm 118:8 is the
middle verse of the Bible; Ezra 7:21 contains all the
letters of the alphabet except the letter j; the ninth verse
of the eighth chapter of Esther is the longest verse in the
Bible, no word or name of more than six syllables can be
found in the Bible."
When Scot Udell originally noted these facts in an article
in Psychology Today, he noted the oddity of an individual
who spent thirty-three years of his life studying what some
have described as: "The Greatest Book of ALL time" yet could
only glean "trivia". From all we know, he never made any
spiritual commitment to Christ, but he became an expert at
Bible trivia.....
What a shame! The prince knew all about the BOOK, but He did
not know the AUTHOR. The problem? He was looking for TRIVIA;
he wasn’t looking for the LORD.
Have YOU read HIS Book lately? Perhaps you already know a
lot about the BIBLE. But, do you know the AUTHOR?
David A. Sargent
creekwood@comcast.net