Doubts and Resolutions

"I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast, and when I run I feel His pleasure."

-- Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire

Do I have the courage -- or the temerity -- to resolve to live my life like Eric Liddell lived his? To promise to honor both the gifts God gave me and the purpose for which he made me? To try to have character, rather than personality, integrity rather than good intentions, and goodness rather than niceness?

Right about here is where I'm sorely tempted to make a joke at my own expense, but while I'm certainly a fitting subject for such a joke, Eric Liddell, and the principles he lived by, are not. Self-deprecation -- partly because it's essentially sincere and therefore "charming" -- is a cop-out.

Eric Liddell deserves to be emulated.