The excerpt below is taken from the final chapter on the last verse of Psalm 23.
But what of the morally neutral decisions, the so-called small stuff of life: what we will eat or drink and what we will wear? We have little ground for uneasiness here. Unknown to us, God's compelling hand is behind every decision we make and everything we do. He cares about the bits and pieces of our days, and He arranged everything to suit Himself.
Our path is His business, not ours. Our business is to trust Him with all our hearts and to refuse to rely on our own understanding. Certainly we must plan and prepare, but we must hold our schemes and dreams loosely, giving God the right to revise them or replace them without our approval or knowledge, permitting Him to advise us, correct us, inspire us, and prompt us, knowing that His compelling hand is directing everything we do.
Trusting Him to lead us means that we'll often be over our heads and out of control, living with uncertainty, giving up the security of our own plans, existing in a world where our confidence in God's goodness and love is the only sure thing.
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