Sam Walton was once complimented on being "an overnight success". In response, he commented that most overnight successes take twenty years. Everyone's looking for the next big idea, the next Google, lightbulb, flight, microchips. Everyone's looking for the grand gesture they can do once to fix their marriage, their job, their children. You can't become an overnight success in life or marriage by big ideas or grand gestures.
God grants us more revelation than we notice. Most of His ideas that He grants to us come as tiny brainstorms that barely warrant paying attention. Tiny brainstorms will be lost if they are not captured, planted, and nurtured. How often do we miss revelation because it's not what we were looking for and resembles hard work?
The next time you're confronted by a behavior you need to change, avoid using the drastic "I'll never do this again" vow. That's not how we change and that's not how God teaches. You do what you're doing because you learned that behavior. If you want to remove that behavior, you need to learn a new one. If you want to learn how to live in accordance with God's will for you, you must ask Him to teach you a new behavior.
"Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little."
Sounds like tiny brainstorms covered in work.
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“Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal Mart was… just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But… it was an outgrowth of everything we’d been doing since [1945]… and like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making” - Sam Walton (Collins, Good To Great, 172)
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