“And It Will Be All Right” — 5th in the Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes series.

Do not be like the people of this world, but have a new mind.

Then you will prove for yourselves what God wants you to do.

That will be good.  It will please God.  And it will be all right.

—Romans 12:2,  Worldwide English (New Testament) (WE)

The last part of this verse usually reads something like, “Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will,” as in the New International Version.

I love this version, from The WE Bible.  (Okay, I even like that title, “The WE Bible.”  But that’s for another time.)

Let’s file this version of this verse under Things I Can Make Too Complicated.  Maybe you do that sometimes, too.

Spend some time today with those last two lines at the top of this entry: “Then you will prove for yourselves what God wants you to do. That will be good.  It will please God.  And it will be all right.”

Just reading that makes me sigh a deep-down sigh, and fills me with both contentment and hope.

You?