 It's not your job to call on people every day, to visit people every day, to hold their hand every day and try to make them feel better about themselves. You need to commit yourself to prayer and teaching God's word, studying God's word, and let the deacons handle that sort of detail. So if we continue in this verse, Paul tells Timothy to exercise, exercise yourself towards godliness. This is the present active imperative of the verb gumnazo,