Second, that I take time out to learn how He wants me to do it. It is not enough to know what God wants. I must somehow give some thought and prayer to how I am to do God s will, not next week, or next year, for I don t exclude also such long-range plans from my life. But, the next day, or as I wrote out, for the next hour. We shall live a good life if we live a planned life.
Some people are more organized than others.
Some live more systematically than others. We re not talking about that. I must take time out each day, if only for a minute or two, to anticipate how I am to do what God wants me to do. What is evidently His will. This failure to anticipate, I believe, is the single principal reason for failure, and I won t say just in the spiritual life in family life, in social life, in business, in our dealings with others.