MARCH RADIO MESSAGE
The Fountain Pen
by Walter L. W ilson
Every pen must be filled with ink, even as the Christian must be filled by the Holy Spirit. A dry pen will not write. Ask yourself if the Lord is using you to write richly and sweetly on the lives and hearts of oth ers. How careful we should be, in writing on the hearts, that we leave CAUGHT UP We shall change— Into something new and strange. Death shall set his captive free; Mortal shall immortal be; We shall put the earthly by— Sin and sin's defiling stain, Weakness, weariness, and pain— Evermore like Him to be Whom at last' our eyes shall see; Into something fair and strange We shall change. We shall pass— Like the wind across the grass; We who walk the earth's hard ways, We who toil through weary days— " Noiseless as the clouds float by In the deeps of summer sky, Silent as the sunrise falls — Annie Johnson Flint a clean white sheet not soiled with blots, splotches, nor * injured by scratching and tearing. The damage done in a few moments can never be repaired in years. Don’t use words or actions that leave a scar. Some hearts, like some paper, must be writ ten on very carefully. '¿A On the sleeping city's walls, Lightly as a drifting leaf. With a journeying as brief, Swift as shadows on the glass We shall pass.
F ountain pen s provide wonderful spiritual lessons. The Christian is like a fountain pen. The Christian, like this instrument, is not a natural product. He is born a sinner and in his natural state loves to sin. Only God can make a Christian. He does it through the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ and the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. The fountain pen has a purpose in life. No one intended it should be set aside and unused. There is a wonder ful work for it to perform. God has equipped the Christian with talents and gifts enabling him to carry out His will. The Bible says, “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men. For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart” (II Corinthians 3:2, 3). Paul compared himself to a pen that must be dipped in the ink to flow out writ ing on the hearts of others. The pen is subject to the will and wishes of its owner. It may be cast aside for a while, or used continuous ly day by day. The pen is committed to the will of its master without fault finding. No pen writes by itself; a hand must hold it. The hand is guided by a thinking mind. So it must be with the believer in the hand of our Lord and His Holy Spirit. We shall be instruments whereby He can write on human hearts the story of His love and grace.
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