Order Out of Chaos

Did you have chores as a kid? Did you hate them as much as I did? Did you try to cut corners to get them done quickly? Then did you have to do them all over again causing you to be at your chores twice as long? As a parent do you find yourself assigning chores to your children? And why would you do that when you know how much you hated them when you were younger?

Hopefully through the years of doing chores and maturing we have learned the value of orderliness it brings out of chaos. Having chores teaches law and order which is foundational for the developement of civilized and productive people. Chores teaching our children to take orders from authorities and to value orderliness. But they are not techniques in themselves that would guarantee godliness. They are merely examples of the kind of structure used to restrain the flesh from its natural impulses. This daily training of chores and orderliness helps in the application toward submissiveness in godly living. Submission that can show a spiritual application toward God-dependence and self-denial because one is not left to himself to do as he wishes.

Without orderliness we would have chaos. The chaotic person's life is lived by haphazard efforts to accomplish things that press at him the most or by the spontaneity of doing whatever pleases him at the moment. Oftentimes in this sort of chaos we would see many projects started but never finished. A person who lives like this is living to please himself and for the moment. He is not a productive person in our society and he are not useful to God.

So even though we hated chores as a kid we know they were good for us. They are also good for our children today. Doing chores is learning orderliness which will make them better people. And most of all can lead them to be useful and productive for God too.