BIBLE MEDITATION: "Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6 DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: In Scotland some men were sitting around drinking tea and swapping fishing stories. One man, with a flamboyant gesture of his hand, knocked the other man's hand and his tea splattered on the white plastered wall creating an ugly brown stain. He was horrified, but the man said, "Never mind." And he took out his crayons and started to sketch around that stain. Suddenly there emerged a royal stag with his antlers spread. The artist was Sir Edwin Lancier – England's foremost painter of animals. He was able to take that old stain and make something beautiful out of it. Jesus Christ is that kind of an artist. He can take a life that has been stained and by His transforming power He can make something beautiful out of it. ACTION POINT: Have you or someone you know endured a tragic childhood and are now saved? Encourage yourself and someone else with this Bible meditation today.