A good compromise

I’m always impressed with a story of Eric Liddell – the athlete famous through the film Chariots of Fire but later a missionary in China interned with other westerners when the Japanese invaded. He tried to keep the youngsters busy with games but true to his principles when he was asked to referee a Sunday hockey game, he refused. However, when he heard they’d tried to play one Sunday and hacked pieces out of each other he agreed to referee the following Sunday feeling it was better to prevent a riot rather than stick with his previous plan.

This is compromise in the good sense. This is rigidity and flexibility without forsaking integrity. You see it chiefly in Jesus himself.