A Gentle Word for Your Morning: Wisdom for Every Crossroad

there is a direct uncomplicated promise available to you for any decision you face today in our last time together we spoke about finding strength when you feel you're running on empty drawing from that beautiful image in isaiah of soaring on wings like eagles today's thought is about what to do with that renewed strength it's about how to find direction the guidance for this comes from the book of james chapter one verse five it says this if any of you lacks wisdom you should ask god who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given to you let's just sit with that for a moment this is one of the most practical and encouraging promises

you can carry with you through your day it starts with a simple condition that every single one of us meets if any of you lacks wisdom and who among us doesn't we face moments every day where we just don't know what to do it might be a small thing like the right way to phrase an email to a colleague or it could be a heavy thing like how to navigate a relationship that's become strained or what the next right step is for your career or your family that feeling of being at a crossroads of being uncertain that is the exact starting point for this promise it's not a sign of failure it's an invitation and

here's what that means for you right now it means that whatever decision is weighing on you big or small you are the perfect candidate to receive help you don't have to pretend you have it all together in fact admitting you don't is the very first step the next part is the action you should ask god it's so simple it's a conversation it's not a formula or a complex ritual it's just turning your heart toward him and saying i don't know what to do here please show me the way you can do it before your feet hit the floor in the morning you can do it in the car on the way to work you can

do it right before you walk into a difficult meeting the asking is the key but the part i really want us to hold onto is the description of the one we are asking he gives generously to all without finding fault think about that generously not reluctantly not stingily but with an open giving hand he isn't annoyed by your questions he isn't tapping his foot waiting for you to figure it out on your own his nature is to give and then there's that phrase that can just undo you in the best way without finding fault so often we hesitate to ask for help because we're afraid of being judged we think i should have known this

or i got myself into this mess i should get myself out we fear someone will look at our confusion and find fault with us but that is not how god responds he doesn't bring up your past mistakes when you ask for wisdom he doesn't shame you for your uncertainty he just gives here's what that means for your heart today it means you can approach him with complete honesty you can lay out the whole messy situation without fear your questions are not an inconvenience to him they are an opportunity for him to show his generous character he is a safe place for your uncertainty and finally the promise and it will be given to you this

isn't a maybe it's a certainty when you ask he will provide now that wisdom might not come as a booming voice from the heavens sometimes it does but more often it arrives in quieter ways it might be a sense of peace about one path over another it might be a new idea that seems to come from nowhere it might be the right words suddenly on your lips in a conversation or it might be a friend offering a piece of advice that just clicks into place the form it takes can vary but the promise is that it will be given so today as you go about your work your errands your conversations remember this simple powerful

loop feel the lack of wisdom ask for it and then watch for how it is generously given the world tells you to rely on your own smarts to hustle harder to figure it all out but there's a quieter more peaceful way it's the way of asking it's the way of trusting that the one who made you is more than willing to guide you you don't have to carry the burden of every decision alone wisdom is not something you have to earn it's a gift waiting to be opened all you have to do is ask