How do I balance planning with trusting God?

¹³Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

¹⁴Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

¹⁵For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

¹⁶But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁷To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

¹The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

²All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

³Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

⁴Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

⁵Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

⁶By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

⁷When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

⁸Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

⁹A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

¹Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

³Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

⁴Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

⁶he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

⁷Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

⁸Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.

⁹For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

²⁵Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

²⁶See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

²⁷“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one momentto his lifespan?

²⁸Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

²⁹yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

³¹“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

³²For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

³³But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

³⁴Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

¹⁶He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

¹⁷He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

¹⁸He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

¹⁹I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’

²⁰“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

²¹So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

²²He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

²³Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

²⁴Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

²⁵Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

²⁶If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

²⁷Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

²⁸But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

²⁹Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

³⁰For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

³¹But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

³²Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

³³Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

³⁴For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.