James 1:5

5 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God (Who gives) to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given him.

I find this verse remarkable - of course we are deficient in wisdom - we are constantly deficient in wisdom and we offer up our often-feeble view and opinion based on an extremely small piece of the total information - we don't know what was in the other persons heart or mind when they said or did that! So, we have AT BEST very limited information, but the safety net for us is "ask the giving God". This is God's default position – permanently listening, gracious and generous to the teachable - when you reach, God responds.

Because we PERMANENTLY lack wisdom at some degree and at some level in everything we think, do and say we need to stay permanently teachable, we need to stay developing a righteousness consciousness and a God-within-me consciousness, and we need to stay gracious to everyone around us.

This is very important : Colossians 4:6 - Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

This also tells me to look for God in everything - from the very small to the overwhelmingly gigantic. So great is the lack of wisdom in each of us, at every level of life - we need to look for God IN every level of life.

You say Joe, that's very harsh - I am actually smarter than that - I don't disagree with you, however, even the things we KNOW, there are still levels and layer to them that we don't know.

My point being, develop the habit of looking for Jesus, looking for His creative and energising power in everything around you.

For example - the God that created the iron ore we discover in the earth, who released the wisdom to mine the iron ore, and refine the iron ore, is the same God that allowed humankind to develop the scalpel that I have used to remove the hardwood wooden splinters out of my hand on many occasions. The same God created the iron ore and the hardwood tree. Now none of us know every minute component of the earth, the iron ore, mining, forestry, manufacturing, sales, marketing, packaging, surgical processes - you get the idea. We all lack wisdom and are information lacking along the way of the very things that we know and take for granted daily - so look for God in the very tiny and non-obvious places and I believe you'll more easily be able to identify Him in the more obvious daily life situations.

James 1:5

5 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God (Who gives) to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given him.

Lets expand this verse a little more:

The overwhelming, vast majority of people would want to make wise decisions, one would hope. I believe that the Lord and our Holy Spirit wants to lead us into decisions that we LOVE to remember. I have been previously plagued with some decisions that I’d love to forget and I suspect most people have some kind of a filing cabinet in their hearts and minds of terrible decisions that they’d rather forget, as well – we’d like to lock that thing up and throw away the key! However, it can be very helpful to unpack some of those decisions at strategic times and especially with genuine help, for example, from a doctor or clinical psychologist or an appropriate professional in that field (which ever field it is) – and really get to the bottom of how that decision happened.

Decisions emanate from a place of options or choices. If there wasn’t a choice or an option or another possible pathway, you wouldn’t need to make that decision.

Confusion comes when there are too many choices or options available to you for consideration. All of these options have to be considered, or thought through – especially so with regard to more important decisions, life altering ones, financial, relational, vocational – these sorts of things...