16, 17. How does spiritual starvation affect a person, and what should we learn from that?
16 One of Jehovah’s witnesses who spent years in complete solitary confinement in Hitler’s Germany describes what takes place when a servant of God is starved spiritually: “In such a state the brain is the only organ that works, and how good it was for me that I had studied the Watchtower magazines well during the previous years and thus had been well prepared for the time of persecution through the study of the articles about Esther and Mordecai, fearlessness, Daniel in the lions’ den, the three men in the crucible, etc.
... 23. Why do some fail to get the full value of the Watchtower study?
23 Some do not show much of a spiritual appetite at the Watchtower studies because they have not developed a sense for details.