1 Timothy 5:23 · World English Bible
1 Timothy 5:23 Meaning Be No Longer a Drinker of Water
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
What does 1 Timothy 5:23 mean?
Water is knowing the truth without doing anything with it. A person can absorb the whole teaching, understand exactly how imagining works, and still hold nothing but water.
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Water is knowing the truth without doing anything with it. A person can absorb the whole teaching, understand exactly how imagining works, and still hold nothing but water. Endless knowing with no practice leaves the mind weak, and that weakness is the infirmity named here. The intellect fills up while the life stays the same.
Wine is the truth put to work. Wine means the imaginal act performed, the wished-for state assumed and lived in until it hardens into fact. A little wine daily means the practice repeated, not the knowledge repeated. Drinking water keeps the mind sick. The cure is the small, steady act of imagining as though the thing were already so. Knowledge turned into practice becomes the wine that strengthens a man.
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Live 1 Timothy 5:23 today
- Instead of reading or listening to one more thing today, take ten minutes alone and actually do the inner work, feeling the thing you want as already so, in the present, with the body relaxed.
- With one person, stop explaining what you have learned and just do a kindness you have been theorizing about. Send the text, make the call, pay for the coffee.
- When something goes wrong today, resist the urge to analyze it for twenty minutes. Give it one minute, then take the single small action, and let the understanding come later.
Where am I filling up on knowing, when one small practice done daily would change more?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A description of rice does not fill anyone. You can recite the whole menu and stay hungry, because only eating feeds you.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Stop reciting the principles and start living them. Philosophy that never leaves the lecture hall is just talk, and talk makes no one stronger.
Bhagavad Gita
Knowledge that is not acted on turns heavy. The small act done steadily carries a person further than the grand understanding never used.
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