May 12, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, May 12.
Mary Stewart was Queen of Scotland and the rival of the first Queen Elizabeth of England. Mary had a son that she named James, and when he was twenty years old, Elizabeth had Mary, her rival, executed. Sixteen years later, Elizabeth died, and James Stewart became King of the British Empire. James was highly intelligent and well educated, but not a particularly successful monarch. He was often at odds with Parliament and unpopular with his people.
Four centuries later, we remember King James primarily for two things. He actively supported the arts, particularly playwrights like the young William Shakespeare. And he ordered his theologians to produce a new translation of the Bible, a translation using the beautiful language of his time, the language of Shakespeare - Elizabethan English - named after his mother’s executioner. The King James Translation was first published in 1611. It is the Bible that I grew up with, and even though I use several modern translations today, the words of James Stuart’s Bible are the words that I hear in my head, and in my heart.
Hebrews 4:12 - “The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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