The LORD really spoke to me a year and a half ago about the Living Water.
I did a study by Kay Arthur on spiritual warfare when I was in the second year of my faith journey. One of the chapters of the book was on the armor of God. Kay did an amazing job of unpacking the elements of the armor. Specifically, on the shield of faith, she taught that at the time when Ephesians was written (and also in the battles described in the OT), only rich soldiers had a metal shield – the poorer soldiers had shields of hide. A wise soldier would soak his shield in water the night before a battle so that the flaming arrows sent toward him by the archers would not ignite it causing him and those around him to be torched. At the time, I came to conceptualize the Holy Spirit as a pool of quiet water.
The spring before last, my son and I hiked the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park. The river from Avalanche Lake was super high, and it narrows into a chasm through huge rocks which have been shaped by the power and force of the water. The power and sound of the water, and it’s incredible force were amazing. A couple of weeks later, I went running on Bigfork’s nature trail above the Swan River. The Swan was raging in the canyon below and the LORD whispered to me – you have made Me (the Holy Spirit) too small, too narrow. Yes, He can be a quiet pool where we can soak our shields, but He is also enormous in power and glory – Niagara Falls at full flood is paltry in comparison to Him. Just as water is everywhere and in everything – every cell of our bodies, the Holy Spirit is also everywhere all the time saturating our very being with Himself. (Praise God!).