stranger danger ...

I was listening to a radio speaker talk about the Good Shephard using Psalms 23 and John 10. This would be a butterfly effect {winks @ my precious gift} - where something from the OT matches to something in the NT like one wing of a butterfly mirrors the other. I jotted down the reference to John so I could read it later in the quiet of night time. I discovered that my Heavenly Father very much wants us to understand stranger danger. In fact has instilled in His sheep the instinct to FLEE.

a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. ~ John 10:5

If you read this passage and start to ask questions from it you will see that the voice of strangers = thieves. And He isn't telling His sheep to flee but they don't know the voice of strangers that they flee meaning the flee instinct is already woven in the heart of His sheep.

Oh how often do I allow my heart to get numb to the voices much like little children are tempted by the candy man even after parents have instilled the fear of strangers. Just because I have become an adult doesn't mean I am immune and don't have to protect myself. It is difficult to flee unless you begin each day and each relationship with God-Alone. Thieves don't hang about when the Shephard is around. It is when you are in midst of a relationship when you realize that the person is really a stranger to you desire to live in God's Way that it is most difficult to flee.

John 10:5 is cleaning out my ears to better hear my Shephard's Voice.