This week, we continued our series on the book “Can God be Trusted in our Trials?” from Tony Evans. In this section, we talked about God giving us wisdom to handle our trials.
James 1:5 is a great promise that God will supply the wisdom needed to Indore a trial  and come out victorious on the other side. The Bible says, “but if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. “
 Let’s not miss read this promise. God is saying that he will always answer the ‘why’ question Of your particular trial. Actually, he has already answered it by telling us that our trials are designed for our good and our growth so the wisdom God wants us to ask him for is not the why of the trial but the how of your particular trial. Actually, he has already answered it by telling us that our trials are designed for our good and our growth so the wisdom God wants us to ask him for is not the why of the trial but the how: that is “Lord, I need your wisdom to know how to react to this trial so that I am faithful to you and it’s an experience the growth and blessing you have for me.
 Lord, I need your wisdom to know how to react to this trial so that I am faithful to you and had an experience the growth and blessing you have for me. “
Biblically, wisdom is the ability to apply divine truth to the various circumstances of life. What we need to know when I’ll trails is the right life application to make. That’s a tall order.  Which is why God promises us not just a trickle of divine wisdom, but an overflow. God promises to answer us generously, which allows us to see the problem or the trail from his perspective and not merely from the physical reality is that we observe around us.
This promise is mind-boggling, but there is a condition attached to it. We may lack wisdom, but that’s no excuse for lack of faith. We read and James 1:6–8, “but he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that men aunt not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double minded man, unstable in all his ways. “
Being double minded means you can’t make up your mind whether you really want God’s wisdom or not. You can’t decide whether you want to hang in there and complete the test or bail out and take the seemingly easy road. I double minded Christian is a schizophrenic saint  Who is divided mind and wishy-washy attitude don’t exactly move the Lauren to answer his prayers. Why? Because “without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that he is and he is a rewarder of those who seek him. “God is not fellowship with unbelief.
 What happens to often in a trials that we Vacillate from God to man, from the spiritual to the physical, from the human to the divine perspective. This doesn’t mean we should not seek council from spiritually mature people, but when we are double minded we don’t elicit guards response. The reality is that far too many Christians are attempting to live in both worlds, but what they wind up with is only man’s view, because God says a person like this cannot expect anything from him.
 This doesn’t mean we should not seek council from spiritually mature people, but when we are double minded we don’t elicit guards response. The reality is that far too many Christians are attempting to live in both worlds, but what they wind up with is only man’s view, because God says a person like this cannot expect anything from him.
You may be saying at this point, “how about a real life illustration of what it means to be a single minded Christian in a trial and see God’s blessing question you may be saying at this point, “how about real life illustration of what it means to be a single minded Christian in a trial and see God‘s blessing?”  James took care of that for us in James 1:9–11 with an example we can all identify with money. “The brother of humble circumstances is to glory  in his high position;  in the rich man is to glory in his humiliation because like flower and grass he will pass away”.
Thanks for listening!
– Lilly and Hannah