Eric Liddell’s Daily Prayer

Eric Liddell, the great Scots Olympic champion in 1924 and one of the central characters of the Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire” in 1982, spent the final years of his life in a Japanese internment camp where he died in February 1945, during the final year of  World War II.

Liddell, as he had promised his worried sister, Mary, just before the Olympics in which he won an unlikely Gold Medal, had returned to China where he was born and his family had been missionaries for years. When he ran, he “felt His pleasure” because God made him fast. Years later, I still tear up watching this:

A Man of Genuinely Lived Faith:

Liddell was a passionate and intelligent follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it was his faith that sustained him during the difficult years of confinement in the internment camp where the Japanese herded hundreds of Westerners caught up in the Imperial Army’s ultimately failed invasion of China.

He wrote a wonderful book during the internment, or I should say, he wrote most of a book titled “The Daily Disciplines of the Christian Life.” I recently came across an extraordinary prayer Liddell included in the book that I believe can be a blessing to every Christian: