Jeremiah 48:11 · World English Bible
Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
Wine left forever in one jar goes stale on its own sediment; it keeps its taste only because nothing ever disturbed it. So it is with a heart that has known only ease from youth, comfortable, settled, and quietly rotting in its unchanged self.
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Wine left forever in one jar goes stale on its own sediment; it keeps its taste only because nothing ever disturbed it. So it is with a heart that has known only ease from youth, comfortable, settled, and quietly rotting in its unchanged self. The very smoothness is the disease.
What cures it is the pouring out, the willingness to be emptied from vessel to vessel, shaken from habit into honest self-examination. That unsettling is not cruelty but attention. The One who tips the jar is present in every loss that stirs a person, clearing the sediment so a finer scent can rise.
Sufism lens
What part of my life stays the same mostly because nothing has ever shaken it?
A cup already full can receive nothing, so the student is told to empty it first. Being poured out is the precondition for being filled.
He warned that an untroubled life leaves a person untested and secretly weak, like a soldier who has never been in the field. Difficulty is what reveals whether anything was there.
The self is found by stripping away what it is not, layer after layer, which is a kind of deliberate unsettling. Comfort keeps the layers in place.
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