‘James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greetings. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diverse temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith produces patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.' (James 1:1-8 KJV)
Since God gives liberally, and does not scold when asked for wisdom; why do these yet not receive wisdom from the Lord? When wisdom of God comes, it is confronted by other considerations. Doublemindedness makes little room for God's wisdom, and since its not received with gladness, that wisdom falls away. Repentance will bring us right back to where God provided wisdom before it was choked out.
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