{"id":5595,"date":"2014-09-25T01:36:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T01:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2014-11-04T04:59:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:59:22","slug":"james-15-if-you-lack-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"James 1:5\u2014If you lack wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.<\/em> James 1:5<\/p>\n

Trials are like mazes. They have a beginning\u2014and if you don\u2019t give up\u2014they have an end. Joy and endurance are keys<\/em> to those mazes, enabling you to make it all the way through despite the time element involved. But in James 1:5, a third key is introduced\u2014wisdom<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rest assured, joy and endurance are both components of God\u2019s wisdom. However, you can operate in joy and exert godly endurance\u2014yet still\u00a0lack the\u00a0wisdom you need to navigate\u00a0your trial.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why James wrote, \u201cIf you lack wisdom, ask for it<\/em>.\u201d Your trial may be so tangled up that, despite your good attitude and hardy endurance, you still need help. Wisdom is what you need.\u00a0 With that added key, \u00a0your joy can find the right path to take, and your endurance won\u2019t have to work forever<\/em> on this one task.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t make the mistake so many others make. They think, \u201cI don\u2019t want to bother God with this.<\/em>\u201d What?!?<\/em> The Word says He is intimately acquainted with all your ways (see Psalm 139:3). Don\u2019t you think that if you were a bother, He wouldn\u2019t take the effort to familiarize Himself with everything that you do and think? He already knows about your trial; He has the way for you to be delivered, and He wants you to ask Him for wisdom. If you were a bother, the Word wouldn\u2019t tell you again and again to ask!<\/p>\n

Ask God for wisdom. It\u2019s that simple. James wrote that God gives it generously and without reproach. Generosity with wisdom is one of the Lord\u2019s chief characteristics. He\u2019s ready to pour out an ample share of it on you whenever you need it\u2014but first you must ask. I think the Lord must scratch His head with how little we actually ask Him for wisdom. He\u2019s so generous with it, but some of us act as if He couldn’t care less about our lives. Nothing is further from the truth!<\/p>\n

God is a generous giver of wisdom, and<\/em> He gives it without reproach. If God did<\/em> reproach you for asking Him for wisdom, that would mean He disapproved<\/em> of you for doing so. His reproach would indicate that your request for wisdom was a disappointment<\/em> to Him. If He reproached you for asking Him for wisdom, that would mean He found fault<\/em> in you for doing so. Do any of those scenarios make sense when you consider the great love He has for you? James made it very clear\u2014God neither finds fault in you nor does He disapprove of you when you ask Him for wisdom.<\/p>\n

What will happen when you ask God for wisdom? He will give it to you!<\/em> Plain and simple.<\/p>\n

Ask Him.<\/p>\n

Dorothy<\/p>\n

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.<\/em> Proverbs 4:7, KJV<\/p>\n

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But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 Trials are like mazes. They have a beginning\u2014and if you don\u2019t give up\u2014they have an end. Joy and endurance are keys to those mazes, enabling you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5784,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstofallpray.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}