If Any Of You Lacks Wisdom,

Let Him Ask God

James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

James 1:1-8

“Wisdom through the awful grace of God” is a remarkable statement. It means that God’s grace fills us with awe and gives us the opportunity to grow in wisdom during life’s most difficult moments.

James wrote, “if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask of God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” James says that this wisdom is grown in the soil of hardship, for there we not only learn from the wisdom of God, we rest in the grace of God.

The darkness of trials only makes God’s grace shine brighter.

Our Daily Bread – April 4, 2016