{"id":1051,"date":"2009-12-28T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2009-12-28T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:49:17","slug":"fulfilling-your-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/28\/fulfilling-your-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulfilling your purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/what-is-life-about\/\" target=\"_self\">previous post<\/a> I quoted Eric Lidel, the Olympic gold medalist &#8211; &#8220;God made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like that quote.<\/p>\n<p>Lidel says when he does what God gave him the ability to do, God is happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>We may be good at something, but it doesn&#8217;t mean it would be easy. I am sure it wasn&#8217;t easy for Lidel to be a champion runner. He had to discipline himself, he had to train, he had to sweat. But he made full use of what God gave him, and God is pleased.<\/p>\n<p>The book of Proverbs talks a lot about laziness. I used to wonder why God is so harsh on lazy people. Why can&#8217;t they take life easy? Why do they have to work so hard?<\/p>\n<p>I think I now understand. If Eric Lidel was lazy, he would not be such a great runner. He would not have fulfilled God&#8217;s purpose for him to be a fast runner.<\/p>\n<p>I feel I&#8217;ve been wasting time; I&#8217;ve been lazy. My new year resolution is to do whatever I&#8217;m good at to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you are good at, do it to the fullest, and that will please God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I quoted Eric Lidel, the Olympic gold medalist &#8211; &#8220;God made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure.&#8221; I like that quote. Lidel says when he does what God gave him the ability to do, God is happy with that. We may be good at something, but it doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spiritual-life","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}