For what is this wisdom that he gives? As we have seen, it is not a sharing in all his knowledge, but a disposition to confess that he is wise, and to cleave to him and live for him in the light of his word through thick and thin.
Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to his will, more resolute in the doing of it and less troubled (not less sensitive, but less bewildered) than we were at the dark and painful things of which our life in this fallen workd is full. The NT tells us that the fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness - peace, and humility, and love (James 3:17) - and root of it is faith in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Timothy 3:15) as the manifested wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:24, 30).
Thus the kind of wisdom that God waits to give to those who ask him, is a wisdom that will bind us to himself, a wisdom that will find expression in a spirit of faith and a life of faithfulness. (p121)
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