"Kanye's 'Conversion': REMEMBER BOB DYLAN"

So, I have it on good authority that KANYE WEST  professes to be a Christian now!! This is great news, of course, if it's true...but permit me to be a bit skeptical  Admittedly I haven't heard ANY of his new album, all I know is the title "Jesus is King" and that's a GREAT title. I do not like Kanye's music and all I know of him is what I hear about him through news sources.  However, though it makes me feel really old, let me tell you a true story about a guy named BOB DYLAN from many, many years ago....I think it's relevant to KANYE, here in late 2019.

Minnesotan BOB DYLAN (Google him if you're young and don't know who he is) electrified the music world by releasing a "Christian" album 40 years ago, in 1979. Considering that he's Jewish and had only recorded mostly PROTEST songs until that time, this was BIG news.  He then followed it up with ANOTHER album, "Saved," and here are the words which he wrote to the title track..

Saved

Bob Dylan

I was blinded by the devil,
Born already ruined,
Stone-cold dead
As I stepped out of the womb.
By His grace I have been touched,
By His word I have been healed,
By His hand I've been delivered,
By His spirit I've been sealed.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm so glad,
I'm so glad,
So glad,
I want to thank You, Lord,
I just want to thank You, Lord,
Thank You, Lord.

By His truth I can be upright,
By His strength I do endure,
By His power I've been lifted,
In His love I am secure.
He bought me with a price,
Freed me from the pit,
Full of emptiness and wrath
And the fire that burns in it.

I've been saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved
By the blood of the lamb,
Saved,
Saved,
And I'm so glad.
Yes, I'm…

You can't be much more Biblical than THAT, and the entire "Saved" album reflected a man who studied and believed the Bible, and seemed determined to LIVE it!! However, on his very next album, in 1981, the obvious declension started, and those Christians who were cheerfully telling their non-Christian friends "BOB DYLAN IS SAVED, YOU SHOULD GET SAVED, TOO" were now making excuses for his "backsliding."

Over the years, from what I've observed, there is NO indication Dylan ever was a true Christian in the first place.  The recent book pictured above TRIES to make the case that Bob TRULY knew the Lord, but when I look at Dylan's LIFE he reminds me more of those who Jesus spoke of, "he received the Word with Joy but when persecution arose because of the Word, he fell away." Remember, the Lord ALSO warned that it's only those who endure TO THE END who will be.............saved.

Kayne's "Conversion" makes him, in MY mind, "Today's Bob Dylan" in that he's a superstar musician professing Christ loudly.  But don't be too quick to get excited or to ENDORSE his profession, as many in my day (not me) did regarding DYLAN. I heard something about Kanye becoming a TRUMP supporter a year or so ago, but then doing an about-face when his peers pressured him.  If that is true the way the media reported it, Kanye has a HISTORY of doing an about-face, and he may do that in THIS case, his "Conversion" story, NEXT.

All I can say to Kanye fans who are GLAD that he said "Jesus is King" is....let's see if he SHOWS it by his LIFE, in the years to come.  It's not those who only SAY they are saved who are saved, but those who LIVE THE LIFE.

Remember Bob Dylan!!