Be kind to strangers

Hebrews 13:2
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.



Abraham entertained three strangers, and they happened to be God visiting him - Genesis 18. Lot also entertained angels without knowing, and the men from Sodom and Gomorrah, thinking the angels were mere men tried to have homosexual relations with them - Genesis 19.
Rahab, a prostitute helped the men Joshua sent to spy Jericho. She helped strangers escape from the wrath of the King of Jericho - Joshua 2. As a result, she was helped by Joshua. Her family and her escaped unscathed when Joshua and the Israelites attacked Jericho - Joshua 6:22-25 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house. But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.



In Genesis 24, Rebekah was kind to a stranger. Her kindness opened the door to a visitation from God. Rebekah, through her kindness found a husband. Time and time again in the Bible, we read of how people have received blessings by entertaining strangers who happened to be instruments of God. In this age and time, with all the crime in the world, we seldom do this. But the Word of God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. It does not change. Angels still visit men unawares. We ought to pray to discern which stranger to entertain and which ones to avoid.


Remember the words of Jesus - Matthew 25:31-40 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.











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