If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 

James 1:5 NLT

Does it seem odd that James needed to tell his readers that God wouldn't rebuke them for asking?

He's already described our God as generous, so makes you wonder what the "Jewish believers scattered abroad" were thinking about who God is, about what He is really like?

I wonder what James would write to us? 

What characteristic of God he would emphasize in response to how we see Him in 2024?

James is writing to a disconnected people inviting them to reconnect with God, to reconnect with God who is for them, who is welcoming.

Perhaps James message wouldn't change all that much. 

Today in Aotearoa NZ is Waitangi Day, and perhaps there's an opportunity to reconnect here too, to the land, to our sense of place, of belonging, of seeing one another.

The Bigger Story is about that reconnection with the land, creation, one another, ourselves, and with God. 

Let's take up James offer and ask...

#James

#invitation 

#inthistogether 

#reconnection