This episode of Red in 30, titled “Glow,” unpacks the idea that every person carries a light within them—sent directly from God—and the call is to go with the glow. The reflection begins with the reminder from John 8: Jesus said He knew where He came from, where He was going, and who sent Him. That same clarity is what so many lack today. The struggles, betrayals, and disappointments of life often make people doubt their purpose, but those very moments of brokenness can be the times when God reveals the most. To recognize the glow within is to know you were sent, not randomly, but intentionally.
The conversation draws a sharp distinction between help and compassion. Modern life often confuses the two, thinking pity-driven help is enough. But true compassion, rooted in the Hebrew word rachamim—linked to the womb—means to be so deeply moved that it compels action. Jesus didn’t come simply to “help” people; He came to show them who they were in God and to realign creation back to harmony. Help sustains cycles of need, but compassion births transformation. That’s why Jesus constantly pointed to the Father’s will, not His own ideas or people’s demands.
From there, the teaching reframes John 3:16. God’s love for the “world” wasn’t just about people but about the entire harmonious system He designed from the beginning. Jesus was sent to restore that order, showing humanity how to live as sent ones who cultivate, replenish, and align with God’s original design. The tragedy is that culture has twisted cultivation into consumption, turning creation into commerce and self-serving pursuits. But the true call is to submit to the sending—to stop resisting, stop comparing, and embrace the purpose for which each person was placed on earth.
The episode closes with a challenge: stop living self-serving and start living sent-serving. To submit to being sent is to let the seed within flourish in the very place and season you’re in. Every person has been sent to their moment in history with something to cultivate and release. The glow is already inside—it just needs submission to shine. To live in that posture is to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself, flowing in the harmony of God’s original design.
