For Christians, our center, that one thing that drives our values, purpose, and mission is God. God is the counterweight that balances us as we are weighed down with life.

As a child, our church had an old playground from the 1970s. During Sunday School we would get to go out after the lesson and play. We all gravitated to the merry-go-round. No matter how tight we held on to the arms, we inevitably would fall off as it would spin faster and faster. Only one child remained on the merry-go-round when it came to a stop. It was the child that clung to the center.

Titus 1:7-14 offers us a look at characteristics not found in a Christian. They are not pompous, quick to anger, or violent. Yet Titus also says that a Christian should be blameless, loving, fair, devout, self-controlled, and clings to the faith.

Like the child clinging to the center of the merry-go-round a centered Christian needs to be focused on God. Let us cling to Him this week!