Team Player!

You hear it ever time a great athletic achievement is discussed in the media. "The're all team players." To accomplish anything great in athletics or for that matter life in general, you have to be a team player. You've heard the quote, "No man is an island." Well its true in marriage as well. You can't have a great marriage if both of you are playing like individuals.

The best marriages are always team efforts. Just like in football, each member of the team has their own assignment. The offensive linemen have to block the defensive linemen. The tight end has to block his man, the running back on a pass play has a blocking assignment. If someone misses their assignment it usually means a busted play.

In marriage, all the assignments have to be covered. Someone has to make the money, someone has to pay the bills and balance the checkbook. someone has to keep the house. Many of these tasks should be shared like rearing the children.

God designed marriage to be that way. When He created Men and Women, He designed them to be uniquely qualified for certain tasks. For example, Women are able to do multiple tasks at once. Which uniquely qualifies them to take care of the children. Have you ever seen a husband with three kids trying to keep up with all of them? It's like a circus because they are probably all three going in different directions and he can't follow them all at once.

On the other hand, Men were designed to be task oriented and very good at doing one thing at a time. That's the way God designed it to be. The challenge in marriage, and it is a significant one, is to discover the talents, skills and abilities that each person has and then make those team assignments to best use those talents.

Marriage works best when its a team effort! Try making those assignments today based on who is best equipped to do them. You'll have a winning team if you do!
Blessings.