We should all ask for this

We are vexed with many questions in this life.  There are puzzling questions.  There are ideas and actions that seem right and wrong almost at the same time.  Where do we turn?  I thought about this when I heard one of you asking a question today.  I didn't know the answer.  At least I didn't know an uncomplicated answer.  I had to ask myself, how would I learn the answer?  The chief means available to us for such things are prayer and the reading of Holy Scripture.  Today, James tells us to be joyful when we face trials - the KJV says "temptations."  Why?  Because these trials test our faith and produce endurance - or, as the KJV has it, patience.  We find ourselves in yet another variation of the "prove all things" theme.  This time, though, the proving is a trial, a test.  But there is some good news.  If we want to know how to resolve a dilemma, God will equip us with wisdom.  Scripture in this case tells us God will give us wisdom if we just ask for it.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God...and it shall be given to him." (James 1:5)

We should all ask for this.