If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. – James 1:5
Today’s verse in James contains a precious promise: ask God for wisdom and He will give it to you. But it comes with a condition. The apostle states that if you doubt, you are double-minded and should not expect to receive from the Lord (James 1:6-8). It is vital to believe that, when you ask the Lord for wisdom, He will give it!
There are some things you can do to build your faith and step out in confidence with the wisdom He gives you. Read and study God’s word: “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). Seek help from the Holy Spirit: “Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words“ (Romans 8:26). Yield to and agree with God: Paul wrote, “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16).
When you adhere to Christ’s teaching, you are living in wisdom. Ask the Lord to reveal your motives and attitudes. Godly wisdom will be in harmony with the fruit of the Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). Love is above all. God’s wisdom is always going to be within the guidelines of loving Him and loving others. Evaluate your actions to see if they align with the love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13.
Seek the Lord’s wisdom as you pray and trust that He is giving it to you. Pray for the citizens and government officials of the United States to step into God’s will and wisdom for their lives.
Today’s Verse: James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
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Recommended for further reading: 1 Corinthians 13
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
