Just Ask

August 19

No, God isn’t in the business of handing out Ph.D.s. He’s not going to miraculously increase your I.Q. and He’s not going to enable you to excel beyond others around you in the academic realm. If you aren’t above average in intelligence, you’re not a likely candidate to expound His Word through your oratory or through your writing skill.

That is not to say He will not use you to lift up His name among those with whom you associate. That is not to say He does not value your knowledge of Him or honor your witness of Christ or your personal testimony of His presence and power in your life. Yet, that is NOT to say He uses only your strength to glorify Himself. He also uses your weakness. He uses all His people to build His Kingdom!

When His name is lifted up through your weakness, it is an evidence of what Paul attested to have occurred in his life—“Christ’s strength is sufficient for me…for when I am weak, then I am strong (through Him)” II Corinthians 12:9, 10. If Jesus isn’t glorifying Himself through the gifts He’s given to you, He is using your lack of gifts to manifest Himself in your lives in spite of your lack of obvious talents and skills.

Wisdom is an entirely different area of understanding in which HE PROMISES TO ENHANCE YOUR NATURAL GIFTS. Knowledge is acquired through the intellect via books. Wisdom is acquired through the spirit via relationship with Jesus. James 1:5 says, “If anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask of God who gives generously to all who will receive it from Him.” Want wisdom? Just ask.