worked into something good. ROMANS 8:28, THE MESSAGE God has had plans for us from before our birth. He has never been apart from us. That which took place in the years before our acceptance of Christ’s love is not rejected but used. Nothing is wasted in the free life of faith. Now all is God’s. . . . The change penetrates every part of our selves and our history, not just the “spiritual” parts, not just the good parts. The inferiorities we feel, the inadequacies we sense, the sins we regret, the differences