stranger danger

“Don’t talk to strangers.”

Another saying that belongs on the “sayings that don’t make sense” list.

The person you call friend today, you called stranger yesterday.

What if you had never talked to them? 

We commence the drilling of this saying into children upon the occurrence of their first spoken word.

The heart behind it: protection.

But the devil has twisted it for deception.

Over and over the lie has been compacted so deeply down down down into us that we have been conditioned to see “strangers” with a stigma.

This saying stains strangers, taints together, smears us all into separation.

Don’t talk to strangers=don’t pay mind to the world around you: the broken, the bruised, the needy; the fixed, the healed, the helpful; go on, pass them by, remain in your own little world, your own little bubble of self-protection, which may keep out the bad but also hinders the blessing, and maybe even someone's eternal destination.

It is so deeply rooted in us that it has become our natural way of life, unconsciously giving into the devil’s scheme, to destruct conversations in which Christ Savior would shine like a beam.

This saying complicates the Great Commission. It is apparently worldly, not biblical wisdom.
There is a stranger danger than talking to strangers.

Yes, strangers may think it strange that you talk to them. But, Christian, let me remind you that you should be thought of as strange in this world, so much that the Bible names you stranger, just flip over to 1 Peter 2:11.

God has given us wisdom and eternal protection; we rely on the Holy Spirit to help us discern when to flee [and rescue others] from dangers.

So PLEASE don't talk to strangers.