Teamwork

Moses was a powerful leader, filled with the Spirit of God.  The people of Israel were brought to the Promised Land by the hand of God himself.  Yet the Israel that left Egypt never took possession of the land.  40 years after leaving Egypt, after all their parents died along the way, the next generation took possession of the land.  Why?

The reason was simple, they did not speak with one voice - they were not all on board together.  They sent 12 men to spy out the land, to see the route they would take and to take note of the cities they would have to overpower.  One group was sent out but two groups came back.  2 of the men, Joshua and Caleb, said that the land was good and that God would deliver it into their hands.  10 of the men said that the land was good but the inhabitants were unbeatable giants before whom they looked like grasshoppers (Num 13:33).  They lacked the united will to follow God's lead into the Promised Land.

Centuries before, the whole world came together as one people and said, "let us build  ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens" (Gen 11:4).  God, in  observing what the people were doing said, "If as one people speaking eh same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them" (v. 6).  Without God's help, they would accomplish the incredible because they spoke as one.

The people of God failed because they did not come together as one.  The godless people would have succeeded had God not confused their language and scattered them (Gen 11:7-8).  The simple principle here is that "Teamwork makes the Dream work." That is not an original quote from me, by the way, I got that from an online publication called "Wisdom Hunters."

I was tasked with bringing the hospice I work for to Level Four (the highest level) of the national We Honor Vets program.  It had been a goal for years that had not been realized.  There was not a hospice in the state of Arkansas that had achieved this honor.  We have become the first to do so.  The reason was the team I brought together, along with the united support of leadership and personnel.  I did not achieve this honor for Arkansas Hospice, "Teamwork made the Dream work."

This principle is true for business, for government, for churches, for families and for couples.  It works because it is God's design.  Jesus said that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two shall become one" (Matt 19:4-5).  The Lord's prayer for all his disciples is that "all of them may be one" (Jn 17:21).

If you want your business or church or family or whatever to succeed you cannot afford to divide and conquer for "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every  city or household divided against itself will not stand" (Matt 12:25).  You must work to build consensus, bringing everyone together, something our national leader have forgotten - something far too many families and churches fail to do today.  We need to return to the biblical principle of allowing teamwork to make the dream work.  Jus' Say'n.