Do you know how to ask for wisdom? 1 Kings 1-4

1 Kings 3:7-9 (NASBStr)

Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

In James 1:5 we are told that if we lack wisdom and God will give it to us, liberally.   We only have to ask in faith.    If you wonder what that process looks like see the above verses of Solomon's prayer to God.    Stepping into the sandals of his father, David, would be one of the hardest, if not THE hardest leadership transitions in history.   We seldom know the names of those who followed great leaders of our day.  Who followed Reagan?  Who followed Thatcher?  Who followed Lincoln?  Who followed King?   Yet, here we have a young man stepping in to follow THE King of Israel: David.   He has a huge task in front of him.  He admits it in this prayer.  He knows NO ONE would be able to do such a task without God's help ... He admits it in this prayer.   He knows that his own training and maturity are lacking ... He admits it in this prayer.   The task is large and the servant is small.   That is the perfect formula for God's Wisdom and Divine intervention.   Moses was small and the task large.  God intervened and equipped him.  David was small and the giant large.  God intervened and equipped him.   Paul was small and the needs for the churches large.  God intervened and equipped him.   Note how Paul says the same thing as he writes to the Corinthian church who were doubting his authority and questioning his ability:

2 Corinthians 12:10

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

We are strong in Christ.   Solomon was not a Harvard grad.  He was not a seminary grad.  He was a man of God, however.  And, he knew that he needed God's help for this task.  He asked and wisdom was given to him liberally.