Wisdom For Difficulty, and I Sure Need It

I am quite familiar with James 1:2-4: "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." I have probably heard more than anything else about this passage that I am to rejoice in it. But usually when the exhortation is given it ends there. Rejoice in it. It is ok to ask why because the answer is in the text: the goal is maturity and growth and the text says that whatever this difficulty is, it is designed to complete what is missing in my current growth as a believer. Something is missing. Nice. I know that. I am aware regularly that something is missing, lacking. Rather than seek after some mystical experience, God encourages me to look closer at the difficulties and struggles I regularly encounter because what is missing is found there. But I am usually the last to figure out anything so thankfully, I have verse 5: "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." That is a definite promise from God. In context it refers to the wisdom needed to see God in the difficulty and what He is doing in me. So, there is this difficulty going on. It really is beyond my knowledge, experience, and wisdom. It also challenges my perseverance. But I think there was something about that in the text. I need wisdom. Very badly. So I will ask and report what wisdom God shows me in His Word (that is where Godly wisdom is found).