Day 35: Monday 3/30

READ: James 1:2-8 (revisit)

My brothers and sisters, think of the various tests you encounter as occasions for joy. After all, you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let this endurance complete its work so that you may be fully mature, complete, and lacking in nothing. But anyone who needs wisdom should ask God, whose very nature is to give to everyone without a second thought, without keeping score. Wisdom will certainly be given to those who ask. Whoever asks shouldn’t hesitate. They should ask in faith, without doubting. Whoever doubts is like the surf of the sea, tossed and turned by the wind. People like that should never imagine that they will receive anything from the Lord. They are double-minded, unstable in all their ways.

REFLECT 

Monday of Holy Week, and we need wisdom for the trials we face. Jesus is in the temple, teaching with authority, confronting the religious establishment that collaborates with Rome. He's calling out their complicity, their use of religion to maintain power. The religious leaders want to trap him, to silence him. But he has wisdom from the Father who gives generously. We face our own confrontations with power. Like Jesus, we ask for wisdom and trust it will come.

RESPOND 

Where do you need wisdom to confront power or face a trial? Ask God for it today.

PRAY 

Generous God, we need your wisdom for the trials we face. Give it freely, as you promise. Amen.