Julian was not a little boy. He was a full-grown man with muscular arms and strong legs. But he was not as tall as a normal man, for Julian was a person with dwarfism, and so he was called “Little Julian.” Although Julian was little in height, we will see that he was large in heart and in courage.
Julian knew that the Lord Jesus loved him and that He had died for him. Julian had accepted Him as his Savior, and Julian found that Jesus was all he needed to fill his heart with happiness.
Perhaps some of you know this song:
“Now none but Christ can satisfy,
None other name for me!
There’s love and life and lasting joy,
Lord Jesus, found in Thee!”
Julian did not know that song, but he did know that the Lord Jesus Christ satisfied his heart.
Julian wanted to share this wonderful Christ. But this was a dangerous thing for him to do. He lived in a country where the penalty for telling others about any religion other than that country’s religion was imprisonment and death. Julian knew this. He could have loved his Savior in secret. But inside his heart was the power of God’s love, making him want to share his wonderful Savior, no matter what it might cost him.
Julian packed up a bag with some bright fabrics and set out as a traveling salesman, carrying a dangerous secret hidden inside his rolls of beautiful cloth and lace. His beautiful things opened doors to Julian, even in homes which were specially built for people serving in that religion. In these homes, he spread out his pretty things for sale and, among them, his dangerous secret ... a forbidden book! Sometimes he showed the people just a few pages, and they looked at them with gasps of delight and fear.
What book could this have been? What book has caused more delight and more hatred than any other book on earth? Of course, it was the Bible — the written Word of God! But they only talked about it in whispers, for no one was supposed to believe anything except the country’s religion. That was a religion with some truth in it, but it never told of God’s offer of the full and free forgiveness of sins through the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Julian’s customers admired his pretty things, and he made some sales. Some people even dared to buy his book, but they also wondered why he was risking his life to bring this treasure
to them.
“Why do you do it, Julian? Don’t you know that someday they will catch you and throw you into the dungeon? Why do you risk your life?”
He answered, “For the joy of bringing bread to the hungry and water to the perishing!”
I wonder if you understand what Julian meant — that Christ Himself is bread for the spiritually hungry and that without Him we will die forever. “Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst” (John 6:3535And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35)). Christ is the true bread of life and the living water, and no religion can ever give this to anyone. No religion can ever take away one sin. It is only Jesus who can take away our sins. It is Jesus Himself who died for us and rose again and is coming back to take us to heaven.
Julian was eventually captured and killed. I think Julian could have said that what he wanted in this life, as Paul did, was this: “That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings” (Philippians 3:1010That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; (Philippians 3:10)). Julian is with Jesus now, and his body, which is now in the grave, will be raised and made new, and he will spend eternity with Jesus forever. Will you? And if so, do you share Julian’s heart and his courage to bring the bread of life to those who need it?
Messages of God’s Love 11/2/2025