About two nights ago I spent my second night out in the bars, and it was… interesting for lack of a better word. We started off the night pretty well. My partner and I were sitting in a bar praying over the bars and everyone in them and we felt like we should get up and walk around to pray. So we started walking down the main road praying for everyone and felt led to sit across from the bar the other team was in and intercede for them there. As we were sitting there a man walked by and we smiled and waved at him, just being polite. A second later he turned around and came back…
…and said “I’m sorry I had to come back, your friend caught my eye, is it okay if I sit and have a drink with you?” My friend and I both were shocked and really had no idea what to do or say so we said yes. He sat with us for about an hour and we got the chance to love on him and just hang out with him and talk to him about why he was here and what he did and just life. It was a little creepy at times, for instance when he told my friend that “her face was like the moon” and that her “eyes were too dangerous to look at” but overall it was a very good night.
Oh, I almost forgot the best part… in the bars there are women and children that walk around selling flowers. At one point a lady walked up to us asking if we wanted to buy some flowers, he took one look at them and bought all of them, he gave two flower necklaces to my friend and an entire bouquet of roses to me. We both looked at each other and had no idea what to do so we accepted them. He continued to be a sweet gentleman to both of us and everyone he encountered. He spread love to so many people that night, even to me.
You see, I have been working through trying to figure out who I really am and finding my identity in Christ. And I have been struggling with body image issues and just not feeling beautiful or worthy of love from anyone, not excluding Christ. To have a random guy tell me that I was beautiful and buy me flowers had to be from Christ. God showed His love for me and His desire for me to feel loved and beautiful and worthy of His love from this random guy from Dubai who we are pretty sure is not a Christian. God is so crazy awesome and He works in some weird ways most of us never expected. I am so happy that I got to meet this man and I really hope we get to see him again and get to share with him the love that Christ wants to share with everyone, that he shared with us, and that I want to share with you. You never know, you too could receive roses from God.
