Not Alone in Siberia
This Week's Theme: The Bible
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: My comfort in suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life (Psalm 119:50).
Bonus Reading:Psalm 119:49-56
Young Fyodor Dostoevsky often drank, played cards and discussed politics with his friends. When informers told the czar that this group criticized his rule, he had them arrested, tried, found guilty of treason, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Fyodor and friends were blindfolded and tied to posts. The squad leader shouted, "Ready
aim
" But at that prearranged moment, a messenger arrived, announcing that the czar had commuted their sentences to hard labor.
As Fyodor boarded the train for Siberia, a woman handed him the only book he'd be allowed to keep in prison: a New Testament. It became his link with sanity and meaning during 10 years of confinement. His daughter Aimee, later wrote, "Throughout his life, he would never be without his old prison Testament, the faithful friend that had consoled him in the darkest hours of his life."
Dostoevsky left prison with a purposeto allow his Christian convictions to shine through in his fiction. Untold numbers have explored the faith because of his encounter on a train with a stranger bearing a small but priceless gift.
Doug Mcintosh in Life's Greatest Journey
Respond:
Thank God today that we can read His Word freely.
Thought to Apply:
I never knew all there was in the Bible until I spent those years in jail.
John Bunyan (author of Pilgrim's Progress, 17th century)
Adapted from: Life's Greatest Journey (Moody Press, Moody Bible Institute, 2000). 1 of 1
Thank you, Father, for Your message. Use it to transform me and those around me.
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