Christians should be wisdom seekers...

James 1:5-8
If there is anything that we should be greedy for, never getting enough and always wanting more, it’s wisdom. Greed is in this world a plague, greed for money, for power, for pleasure. Job says, “it cannot be valued in [even] pure gold.” Solomon said, “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” You could ask for money and be right or wrong in asking, depending on your motive or inclination, but to ask for Wisdom from above is always godly, always pure, always profitable.
Christians should be wisdom seekers.
James says if anyone lacks wisdom let him ask. The word James uses (aiteō) is in the present active imperative – indicating not a one-time request, but a continual state of being – in other words, “keep on asking.” Proverbs 8 is a chapter where wisdom is personified for us, and addresses us saying: “Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, but he who fails to find me injures himself, all who hate me love death.”
Wisdom seekers wear seat belts.
Each fall on our farm when the harvest wrapped up, my dad operated a liming business on the side. He was the only one around with a truck, so people would hire him to spread lime on their pastures and fields. Occasionally my younger brother and I would ride along in the truck, probably to get us out of my mom’s hair for a while. I remember one day we were riding along as he was doing an application in a nearby cow pasture. Since the truck spread lime in all directions, my dad would drive in circles through the middle of the pasture, which was uneven ground. If the old truck had seat belts, the two boys on the passenger side of the bench didn’t know it, and we laughed hysterically as we got two or three feet of air off the seat, almost hitting the top of the cab. It’s much like the simile James uses of “a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.” Hebrews say our hope is a “sure and steadfast anchor of the soul.” We need to be anchored.
Seat belts are standard equipment with salvation.
Here’s the hard part, and be forewarned – James is going to question the salvation of the so called “Christian” who reads his letter. It seems obvious that there were imposters among his readers, and he isn’t shy to tell them so. We don’t get saved by being wise, (or else none of us would be saved), but rather when we get saved, God puts a desire in us for wisdom.
Again in Proverbs 8 – “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His word, the first of His acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth… Then I was beside Him, like a master workman, and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always.”
Job 28:19, Proverbs 8:34-36, Ecclesiastes 9:18 Hebrews 6:19, Proverbs 8:30