Friday, March 13, 2026
“The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations” (Psalm 33:11 KJV).
Only by God’s grace, we celebrate 5,400 days of devotionals!
Worried about his people failing to preserve their historical records, a man penned, “Let us put our archives in shape for the children who will soon take our places, that they may study the past and plan for the future.” One hundred years later, how apt are these words of that museum curator and professor of civil law history!
The Holy Spirit’s design in revealing (uncovering), inspiring (committing to paper), preserving (keeping free from error), translating (moving from original languages to receptor languages), and illuminating (shining a light upon) His words was to have a record of God’s interactions with man from creation to culmination (see today’s Scripture). Our Authorized Version—commonly called the King James Bible—is the English fruit of that process. Most of Christendom is largely ignorant of this, and, as pathetic as it sounds, a surprising number have no interest in ascertaining it. To admit a settled Book is to render all subsequent translation efforts needless, and then no one could construct their “favorite” version and $ell it!
Moses’ parting advice to Israel involved remembering God’s words and parents passing them on to their children: “Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;…” (Deuteronomy 4:9). One such teaching method was the annual observance of the Passover feast, which illustrated for future Israeli generations just what happened to their ancestors in Egypt long before their time: “And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped” (Exodus 12:26,27).
Younger generations, unfortunately, are still not learning their history as they should. The problem, of course, starts at home, where their parents have failed miserably to learn it themselves. While we yet have time, may we learn and teach our children the King James Bible rightly divided. This we do for posterity’s sake.
Onward by God’s grace to special-edition #5500! 🙂
NOTE: Remember, all 5400 devotionals are archived here.
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