After we ask FATHER for Wisdom, we are then prepared for full spiritual maturity. This level of maturity requires Wisdom from Above.
James wrote by The Holy Spirit in his Epistle in chapter 1:
13 When you are tempted don’t ever say, “God is tempting me,” for God is incapable of being tempted by evil and He is never the source of temptation.
14 Instead it is each person’s own desires and thoughts that drag them into evil and lure them away into darkness.
15 Evil desires give birth to evil actions. And when sin is fully mature it can murder you!
16 So my friends, don’t be fooled by your own desires!
As we walk in greater maturity, our desires align with FATHER’S desires and we are no longer tempted by our previous carnal and fleshly desires. Our thoughts will no longer consider past temptations and those temptations cease being an issue. Major sin issues in society are eliminated only by salvation and renewing the mind. This eliminates the demand for drugs, fornication, pornography, fraud, burglary, etc. More laws is not the solution. Forcing behavior on the population will not resolve the source of the problems.
17 Every gift God freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming down from the Father of lights, Who shines from the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness and is never subject to change.
18 God was delighted to give us birth by the truth of His infallible Word so that we would fulfill His chosen destiny for us and become the favorite ones out of all His creation!
This Truth restates the essence of Psalm 139:16. We were Divinely placed here for this particular time and with a specific purpose. The Holy Spirit will lead us into the fullness of this purpose if we seek His guidance in all matters.
19 My dearest brothers and sisters, take this to heart: Be quick to listen, but slow to speak. And be slow to become angry,
20 for human anger is never a legitimate tool to promote God’s righteous purpose.
Anger is a hindrance in ministering to those who need to hear our message of life, peace, and joy. Righteous anger is acceptable as shown when Jesus ran out the moneychangers from the Temple. The Holy Spirit will show us the difference.
21 So this is why we abandon everything morally impure and all forms of wicked conduct. Instead, with a sensitive spirit we absorb God’s Word, which has been implanted within our nature, for the Word of Life has power to continually deliver us.
As I wrote recently, we must protect our hearts from the world so that we maintain a sensitive spirit.
22 Don’t just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let his Word become like poetry written and fulfilled by your life!
23 If you listen to the Word and don’t live out the message you hear, you become like the person who looks in the mirror of the Word to discover the reflection of his face in the beginning.
24 You perceive how God sees you in the mirror of the Word, but then you go out and forget your Divine origin.
We are to be a doer of The Word. There are countless Christians who do not respond to The Word and deceive themselves. Don’t be counted among them. Without active faith, it is impossible to please FATHER.
25 But those who set their gaze deeply into the perfecting law of liberty are fascinated by and respond to the Truth they hear and are strengthened by it—they experience God’s blessing in all that they do!
26 If someone believes they have a relationship with God but fails to guard his words then his heart is drifting away and his religion is shallow and empty.
It is vital that we guard our words and not allow ourselves to speak words that fail to reflect the nature of Our Heavenly Father.
27 True spirituality that is pure in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans, and widows in their troubles, and to refuse to be corrupted by the world’s values.
Lastly, we are to help those in need, especially the widows and the orphans. It is all about Love!