Today's Bible reading is the 8th chapter of the Book of Romans. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8&version=NASB

The eighth chapter of the Book of Romans contains several well known and often quoted Bible verses that have been dear to the hearts and minds of believers for centuries. One of those verses is Roman's 8:28 that says, "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Over the years I have often heard this verse misquoted in a way that, I believe unintended, dismisses the central truth that it speaks of. Brothers and sisters in Christ will say, "all things work together for good for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Leaving out the "God causes" part results in an assertion that "things" somehow have the capacity "to work together for good" and that there is some sort of universal and mystical connection between all things. But "all things", good and bad, lack the power to work together for good in the life of the believer or anyone else. The child of God is dependent upon the sovereign "causer", the One who caused the creation of the "heavens and the earth", to take hold of all things, the good and the bad, and cause them to work together for good in the lives of "those who love God". Let us never cease to give God the glory for being the One, the only One, who can "cause all things to work together for good" to each one who loves Him.