The Kingdom Glow

Several years ago I was an avid soda drinker. I loved a nice, cold, crisp orange soda. For an example to the generation that grew up in the 90s with the Nickelodeon television show Kenan and Kel, I was comically a female version of Kel. Nothing could tear me away from the craving for an orange soda pop. After going on a weight loss journey, I removed soda from my diet. Side note: it’s been one of the few standards I’ve been capable of upholding. Don’t judge me too hard. The Lord is still and constantly working on me (Haha).
If you follow this blog, I love to look into the spiritual side of life and ask questions as I am on this walk with God. When I read a prompt as such, my initial answer was the living waters, of course.
The living waters, the Living Waters… Redundancy is on purpose for emphasis. What are the Living Waters, or what is it? A better question would be, who is the Living Waters?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made

John 1:1-3 NIV

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth

John 1:14 NIV

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, and also the word was made flesh. In the book of Jeremiah chapter two, the Lord refers to Himself as the spring of living water. His people can no longer hold the waters because of their brokenness and their own understandings.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

John 4:7-15 NIV

When I am hit with drought and parched, I turn to the only one that can quench my thirst. To quench and satisfy the longing and need for abundant and joyous life. As I drink from the spring of living waters, I, too, can pour the same on others. As the spirit flows from each of us in the body of Christ, we will continue to uplift and edify one another while exaltation by the one who loves us.

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

John 7:37-39 NIV

*Grammatical errors may occur