KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Knowledge
THE PRINCE OF Granada was sentenced to Madrid's infamous prison, The Place of Skulls, in fears that he might aspire to the throne...
For thirty-three years he remained in solitary confinement with but one book to read -- the Bible. He read it hundreds of times. What did he learn?
There are 3,538,483 letters in the Bible.
The word "girl" appears once in the Bible (and "girls" once).
No word or name of more than six syllables can be found in the Bible.
The ninth verse of Esther 8 is the longest verse.
He knew all these things but never became a Christian.
THOUGHT: There is a difference between "head" knowledge and "heart" knowledge. It is a tragedy to spend hours and hours in study -- or year after year in Bible class and worship -- and not make any application of what we read and hear. (Allen Webster)
KneEmail: "Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments" ( 1 John 2:3).