Big Yellow Taxi
In a hit song written by Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi," a line struck me which says: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till its gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
I thought of many people in the world about how they treat the Lord Jesus Christ. He is Paradise Himself and yet they reject Him for a whole parking lot of things. They don't know what they got in Him until He is gone forever by their rejection of Him.
1 Co 2:8 ... none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
There are many people right now in a place of torment who took for granted the Lord Jesus while they were living. Now that they are there they now realize His true value. They thought little of Him and what He did for them on the cross but they now realize too late that He is Paradise Himself. They "paved paradise and put up a parking lot" so to speak.
Will you be one of them? Will you pave paradise and put up a parking lot?
