The Servant Queen and the King she serves Paperback – 2016

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The Servant Queen and the King She Serves' was published by the Bible Society, HOPE and LICC this year, to mark her 90 th birthday. In the foreword the Queen wrote:"I have been – and remain – very grateful to you for your prayers and to God for his steadfast love. I have indeed seen his faithfulness." It is a remarkable achievement. Reconciliation in action. Where might the Queen have got such a vision? Use our online Bible search tool to read the Bible online, search the Bible and compare Bible verses. Queen Elizabeth says, "Each day is a new beginning. I know that the only way to live my life is to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God...I draw strength from the message of hope in the Christian gospel." urn:lcp:servantqueenking0000gree:epub:8249d2de-cb1c-4aad-8f45-39dcb78cbac6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier servantqueenking0000gree Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t70w7hb8w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780957559820

So often we have preferred to indulge our individual desires rather than do our duty to love those around us.

The book was designed to be a conversation-starter and a gift from churches to their local communities. It proved so popular in Britain that the Bible Society reprinted a further 150,000 copies on top of the original 100,000. In an article 'Defender of the faith' Gillan Scott wrote: "Jesus is the Servant King, but Elizabeth perhaps should be known as the servant queen. For not only has she sought to serve us as her people, but she has also chosen to place herself under authority, serving Jesus as her own Lord and Master and seeking to follow in his footsteps." It is my prayer that on this Christmas day we might all find room in our lives for the message of the angels and for the love of God through Christ our Lord.’ The Bible was central to the start of Queen Elizabeth’s reign when, at her coronation, it was described as “The most valuable thing that this world affords.” Now 64 years later, the role of the Bible and her Christian faith in her reign as Queen has been detailed in a new book to commemorate her 90th birthday, The Servant Queen and the King She Serves. I am always moved by those words in St John’s Gospel which we hear on Christmas Day – “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not…” We have only to listen to the news to know the truth of that. But the Gospel goes on – “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God”.

Her Majesty the Queen has written the Foreword to a book being published to celebrate her 90th birthday on 21st April this year. The Servant Queen – and the King she serves gives a unique insight into the Queen’s faith in and devotion to Jesus Christ. Indeed, she has written the Foreword – a quite remarkable imprimatur – which is replete with words of devotion, service and love:

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Throughout the dominions the Queen ruled, no one under the age of 70 has known another monarch. The nature of this world is ever-changing and often uncertain. But she was a fixed point. The Queen was always part of life—rarely front and centre in our consciousness, but always there. She connected us to our past. She’d endured the Blitz of London in the Second World War; her first prime minister had been Winston Churchill; her mother had been born in the Victorian age. Everything changes; but, in many ways, she did not. Until today.

Her strong Christian faith was known long before she became 'the defender of the faith.' On the occasion of her 21st birthday in 1947 she made a radio broadcast in which she said: 'I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. Furthermore, it is not only that anyone can contribute and anything can be done for God, but that anything can be done with love:In a strong statement of faith, the Queen has said that she is ‘very grateful’ to the nation for its prayers for her and that she has felt God’s ‘faithfulness’ during 64 years on the throne. The most gracious of men has shown us all how to accept the facts of the past without bitterness, how to see new opportunities as more important than old disputes and how to look forward with courage and optimism.’ (1995) But I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do. I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow, and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.' Yn 2010 wrth iddi siarad yn agoriad Synod Cyffredinol Eglwys Loegr, dywedodd: 'Nid pryder am ein lles a’n cysur ein hunain sydd wrth wraidd ein ffydd, ond yn hytrach y syniad o wasanaeth ac aberth a welir ym mywyd a dysgeidiaeth yr un a ddarostyngodd ei hun gan gymryd arno agwedd gwas.' The wise men of old followed a star; modern man has built one. But unless the message of this new star is the same as theirs our wisdom will count for nought.’