Read James 1:5-11
Asking for wisdom is like asking for patience because wisdom is the working out of knowledge. First you get knowledge of how to live, then you get understanding in how to do it, then you get wisdom by actually putting it to work in your life. Wisdom only comes through experience. You can not get wisdom from a book. You can get knowledge in a book and some understanding, but wisdom comes through hands-on trying and failing and trying again. After working on the light bulb for years and not coming up with the answer, someone asked Edison if he felt like a failure and he said, “No, I found 253 ways how NOT to make a light bulb.” As we know he finally did find a way that worked. The good thing is: wisdom is something God delights to give us, so all we have to do is ask for it. If we doubt God wants to give us wisdom, then we will doubt everything about God. We have to ask and believe, then we will be stable in all our ways. If we are asking humbly then when the answer comes we will be confident in God. If we are confident in ourselves then when God gives us wisdom it will humble us. When God steps in and reveals his glory through us we realize how small and insignificant our lives are. I think of Steve Jobs, such a loss to the world, yet all his money could not add one day to his life. Our lives are like the grass that is here today and tomorrow it dies and withers away. We can leave an earthly inheritance which can be quickly spent. But we can leave a spiritual inheritance that lives on till Jesus comes back.
Lord, we do ask for wisdom in how to come in and go out with you. Help us to remember that you are just a prayer away. We can have an audience with the king at any given moment.
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