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 1970’s. 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 inevitable 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.
Like the child clinging to the center of the marry-go-round a centered Christian needs to be focused on God.
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.