I burst out laughing when I saw the clip on YouTube. Bob Dylan wrote this odd song and I couldn’t believe it won a grammy in 1980. But when I read the lyrics, it made perfect sense.
The song is entitled, “You’re going to have to serve somebody.” I grew up listening to all the other songs that were contending in this category at the Grammy’s that year. However, I had never heard this song by Bob Dylan before. I watched him perform the song in the hopes that it would ring a bell.
But nope! The performance was awkward. But as I giggled to myself, I realised that the words he was singing were so powerful. Here’s the chorus:
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
Indeed you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
Have you ever thought about that? It is so true. But I’d like to take it a step further. You’re going to have to serve somebody. Either you will serve Jesus or you will serve yourself. You will either serve the Lord or you will serve money.
In this life, there is no middle ground. We either accept Jesus Christ and what He did for us by dying on a cross or we reject Him. Because God sacrificed His only Son for us, it demands an answer.
We get to choose whom we will serve but as Bob Dylan says, we are going to have to serve somebody.
I don’t know about you, but I choose Jesus all day, every day. Surrendering my life to Him has the been the very best decision I have ever made.
So what about you? Who will you serve? The choice is yours.
If you would like to serve Jesus, click on the pop up banner or on the link below. It will be the very best thing you will ever do.