John Fischer The Catch

Inside

A change is happening on the inside

And it makes no sense for me to hide

What I don’t want you to see

Come see

Everything that lies inside me

‘Cause amidst the mess I’ve made of me

You might see the Lord
From the song, “Inside” by John Fischer

You wouldn’t believe how arrogant I was when I wrote this song about the mess I’d made of my life. If you had asked me about that mess then, I’m sure I would have come up with a few things, but I doubt they would have added up to much of a mess in the grand scheme of things. In fact my arrogance would have been a major part of the mess, but I wouldn’t have realized it. I had indeed made a mess of my life, I just didn’t see it. In spite of the “mess” I thought I was doing pretty good. That’s why songs are so prophetic. You utter truths before you’ve had a chance to actually experience what they mean.

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Well here I am late again because the subject matter of these Catches is like Nathan pointing his finger at me like he did to David, saying “You’re the one who has sinned.” I started out this Catch with a statement of sin being underrated among Christians. Well I can truly say I am in that group.

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“As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.”

~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Notice how we don’t like to talk about sin? In some ways it feels like an old concept, a religious word, a word you want to avoid in the marketplace lest someone think you are a religious nut. Billy Graham used to talk a lot about sin. Some of our pastors talk about sin. But it’s not an everyday word. Use “sin” in your vocabulary and people might look at you a little funny. But sin is real, and as the Spurgeon quote above indicates, it is pervasive in our characters, our lives, our very make-up. 

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