Starved Spiritually

Haralan Popov was imprisoned 13 years for his faith in Christ. 

Five years into his sentence, he discovered another prisoner rolling cigarettes in Bible pages. 

“For five years I had starved physically, but I had starved even more spiritually, and I can tell you the spiritual hunger is more painful than the physical… God’s Word had been my inseparable daily companion. Then, abruptly, I had been cut off from it for five years. I offered [this prisoner] all my money for the New Testament, but I would have given him my arm or leg if he had asked for it! That’s what God’s Word meant to me then—and now.” *

I read Popov’s story as a new believer, and it touched me as much then as it does now. 

I can access God’s Word so easily, but I must never take it for granted because it is “God-breathed” and useful for every aspect of life and living (2Timothy 3:16-17).

It is alive and powerful (Hebrews 4:12). 

It endures forever (Isaiah 40:8).

It is more important than our daily bread (Matthew 4:4). 

Haralan Popov understood these things. Do I? Do you?
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*Haralan Popov , Tortured For His Faith  (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondarvan Publishing House, 1970) pp. 97,98.
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