The Voice of strangers

I was talking to my son about when I was a boy I would walk to the store and to the park by myself. He looked at me with curiousity and asked "did strangers mess with you" after our conversation I opened my bible not looking for anything particular and this is what I was led to. "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." John 10:4-5

Wow!! I believe that we can learn a lot from the lessons we teach our children. We tell our children to never talk to strangers. To never take anything from someone you don't know. When I was a child if a stranger talked to me I was told to run and that is what I did. If a stranger gets their hands on you, you are under their control. The problem is that many of us think we can handle ourselves around strangers and that we can listen to them and listen to God. The stranger baits children by using a friendly voice and a gift(candy) to the child to draw them within arms reach. But once they touch you they change from being friendly to be aggressive and oppressive.

But we must ask ourselves. Are we so comfortable with the voice of strangers that their voice no longer seems strange? When we listen to the voice of strangers we can be led away from the voice of God. Then when God speaks we are against the way He is trying to lead us. I believe that God is saying that it is time to flee the voices that are contrary to His Word. God loves us and will not lead us to destruction but through destruction uneffected. "yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me....." Psalms 23:4. The more we commune with strangers the more we become numb to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Let us hind to the lesson we learn as a child. DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS. DON'T LISTEN TO THE ADVICE OR OPINIONS OF STRANGERS AND NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FROM A STRANGER. God bless you.