There's nothing more impressive than watching precision marching.

The first thing you learn when you join a marching band, go to a military academy, or join the military is march. When I arrived at New York State Merchant Marine Academy (SUNY Maritime College), they lines us up in the quad, and from the dorms on both side, our Indoctrination Training Officers marched to the center, meeting perfectly in the middle. I was impressed from the beginning.

Then... they had to teach us how to march. Always start with the left foot. Listen to the cadence. Even how you turn depends on which column you're in when you're marching.

The two things that you could count on were your guide-on, or the person carrying the flag, so you could tell your relative position, and someone calling cadence to make sure that you were in sync with everyone else.

As Christian, our guide-on should be the word of God, and our Pastors, brothers and sisters in the faith should be calling our cadence.

In the book of Titus, Paul begins the letter by calling cadence to make sure that when Titus started marching, that he was going in the right direction. Let's read his words:

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— 2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, 3 and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior, 4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith:
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Titus 1:1-4 New Living Translation)

To make sure that they start marching together and on the right foot, Paul makes a few important statements:

• I/we are servants of God
• called to further the faith of God's elect
• increase the knowledge of truth that leads to godliness
• in the hope of eternal life
• which God (who does not lie) promised
• He's entrusted this truth to us...
• by the command of God our savior
• MARCH

Sometimes, as Christians, we get out of sync as to what we are supposed to do. We get caught up in our own lives and our own struggles and forget that we are called to strengthen each other in the faith and to share salvation with those who do not know that there is a Savior that loves them.

Let us struggle to start of every day getting our marching orders and checking our guide on to make sure that we are in alignment with what God has called us to do!