Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 10:19, 21 NKJV
He doesn’t want to, though: He’s more than willing to help.
We were always indoctrinated not to speak to strangers- and they have a point. We can’t trust someone whom we don’t know. What if their perverted minds speak of unfathomable things to do with impressionable children? For our safety, they were right: they don’t want anything or anybody to harm us, mucho más if we don’t know the dangers we shall face.
God, however, thinks otherwise.
Of course, I know He’d wholeheartedly approve common sense to be implanted in our minds. Unfortunately, life in this century forces us to look at the world with a double-edged sword behind our backs. Not everything or everybody we encounter can be trusted. We’ve seen what happens when we fall under such blind stupidity. But someplace somewhere, there’s a stranger that desperately waits for that hug.
I know there will be people who will read the words above with a happy life by their side. Amen to them, I say. But I know that somewhere along the way, there are strangers who are estranged to themselves. Maybe their lives are in broken and torn shambles. Perhaps their credit score’s really low and they can’t afford to buy a house because the one they live is running in foreclosure. Or they’re facing a nasty divorce, and their marriage has no repair. Or someone close died, and they don’t know how to cope with it. They become strangers in the mess, and no one lending hand feels enough to free them from the mess.
There are no easy answers to those problems. I’m only human, though: I don’t have the power to fix the world. But I know Someone who loves strangers find themselves in the best of the worst. He knows how to perfect their love with them…and I will love them too, in His name.