How to Get Out of Doing the Dishes by Using Scripture
1 Corinthians 13:1-4 states that if are actions are not done out of love, then our actions are vain and a waste of time.
Now what about performing actions when we don't feel like it. Like performing an action like greeting someone at church when I really don't want to, and since it is not out of genuine love, then am I wasting my time?
Suppose my wife asks me to do the dishes and I don't want to do it, and since my doing the dishes wont be out of love, then according to the scriptures I should not do the dishes, right?
Or if I get more joy and excitement from playing video games, and I love doing it, then I should do that, right? "Sorry honey, I don't want to do the dishes and since my doing them would not be out of love, then I should not do them, but don't worry I am going to play video games which I want to do and love doing :-)"
I am not sure how far I can get with this line of reasoning and frankly, I believe that I will reap some serious consequences from my wife if I tried executing this line of reasoning.
Love is ultimately a choice and not a robust sensation of feeling and excitement, though it can be at sometimes, especially when you fall in love with someone. However, what happens when those robust sensations of love dissipate over time and you don't feel those feelings anymore? Would it now be time to let your wife go and to move on to the next women? Of course not! Unless you want to repeat the cycle of shifting through women your whole life and suffering the consequences of loving your flesh. Love is a choice!
Since mature love is a choice and it is not always surrounded with butterflies of excitement and joy, my choice to do the dishes would be an act of love towards my wife and myself (for obvious health reasons) though I can be vehemently opposed to doing so. My love to my wife may not always be butterflies in my stomach but I chose to love her because love is also selfless. To discard my wife for some other women would be to exercise an immature and selfish desire of love which would actually be more harmful to me then if I would just stay faith to one women in my life.
Jesus Christ on the cross did not have robust sensations of love for us, He was in anguish sweating drops of blood in the garden before the crucifixion, He asked the Father, "O Father, let this cup pass from me, but nevertheless, Your will be done." I am certain that these words were not lyrics to a song that Jesus was thinking of with an upbeat tone.
In John 15:13 Jesus said that, "No love has anyone greater than this, than for one to die for his friends." With this closing thought, we should do the selfless things and not the selfish things. We should greet other people in church because it is making a choice to show someone a degree of love. This may be more of sacrifice to some than to others. Or men, let's show our wives that we love them by doing selfless acts like, doing the laundry, washing the dishes, and other actions that we don't love doing but by doing we show that we love our wives. Sons and daughters can also show love to their parents by doing the listed chores and by honoring their parents.
Immature love is based of feeling and sensations. Mature love is based off of the ultimate example of love, the sacrifice that Christ gave on the cross, so mature love is sacrificial love.
Now what about performing actions when we don't feel like it. Like performing an action like greeting someone at church when I really don't want to, and since it is not out of genuine love, then am I wasting my time?
Suppose my wife asks me to do the dishes and I don't want to do it, and since my doing the dishes wont be out of love, then according to the scriptures I should not do the dishes, right?
Or if I get more joy and excitement from playing video games, and I love doing it, then I should do that, right? "Sorry honey, I don't want to do the dishes and since my doing them would not be out of love, then I should not do them, but don't worry I am going to play video games which I want to do and love doing :-)"
I am not sure how far I can get with this line of reasoning and frankly, I believe that I will reap some serious consequences from my wife if I tried executing this line of reasoning.
Love is ultimately a choice and not a robust sensation of feeling and excitement, though it can be at sometimes, especially when you fall in love with someone. However, what happens when those robust sensations of love dissipate over time and you don't feel those feelings anymore? Would it now be time to let your wife go and to move on to the next women? Of course not! Unless you want to repeat the cycle of shifting through women your whole life and suffering the consequences of loving your flesh. Love is a choice!
Since mature love is a choice and it is not always surrounded with butterflies of excitement and joy, my choice to do the dishes would be an act of love towards my wife and myself (for obvious health reasons) though I can be vehemently opposed to doing so. My love to my wife may not always be butterflies in my stomach but I chose to love her because love is also selfless. To discard my wife for some other women would be to exercise an immature and selfish desire of love which would actually be more harmful to me then if I would just stay faith to one women in my life.
Jesus Christ on the cross did not have robust sensations of love for us, He was in anguish sweating drops of blood in the garden before the crucifixion, He asked the Father, "O Father, let this cup pass from me, but nevertheless, Your will be done." I am certain that these words were not lyrics to a song that Jesus was thinking of with an upbeat tone.
In John 15:13 Jesus said that, "No love has anyone greater than this, than for one to die for his friends." With this closing thought, we should do the selfless things and not the selfish things. We should greet other people in church because it is making a choice to show someone a degree of love. This may be more of sacrifice to some than to others. Or men, let's show our wives that we love them by doing selfless acts like, doing the laundry, washing the dishes, and other actions that we don't love doing but by doing we show that we love our wives. Sons and daughters can also show love to their parents by doing the listed chores and by honoring their parents.
Immature love is based of feeling and sensations. Mature love is based off of the ultimate example of love, the sacrifice that Christ gave on the cross, so mature love is sacrificial love.
