James 1:6

‘But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who doubts is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and troubled.'

But those who would receive God's wisdom must come to God with full confidence in His willingness to respond. They must ‘ask in faith, nothing doubting'. And as the writer in Proverbs tells us, they must do it by ‘choosing the fear of the Lord' (Proverbs 1:29). In other words it requires a single eye (Matthew 6:22). For ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and of true knowledge' (Proverbs 1:7; Job 28:28), and results in riches beyond imagining (Proverbs 3:13). They must thus set their minds to experience this wisdom with hearts full of faith. For if they doubt (revealing it by the course they choose in their thinking and in their lives) they will be tossed to and fro like the waves in the wind, swirling this way and that, never at rest (Isaiah 57:20). They must therefore rather look to God with a single eye and a full assurance of faith, and not with one that turns this way and that, for they cannot serve God and Mammon (Matthew 6:22).