Many are the mornings that I have asked myself why do I have to get up why can’t I stay here?  My eyes are barely open my bed is so warm and secure so why would I want to leave a place that offers me rest and security to go face the unknown or even worse at times the known?!  In that comfortable spot is where I turn my thinking from why I don’t want to get out, to why I should. I should because nothing will change if I don’t.  I should because the race isn’t over yet and that means I still have time to run it and win it.

I should because I have been given the opportunity to live when others have died. I should because I have something to give that no one else has, Me.

In Isaiah 52:2 the Lord is speaking to Israel and saying arise, shake off the dust take off the chains off your neck and sit enthroned. He is calling her out and saying Get up! SHAKE IT OFF! He is telling her to take off her own chains around her neck.  This means that there are times when we ourselves have just sat there collecting dust, chained down all the while having the power to get up and be free.  Let today be a reminder that you have what it takes because He gave all it took for you to be able to get up and Shake it Off! For you to be able to be Free!  To be who he has called you to be! Take off the chains that you have around your neck that keep you there and get dressed and take your place in this world and be the royalty He has called you to be.

Merita’s Heart ❤

PS. If you have found yourself there collecting dust, feeling chained to something not knowing what you are chained to, take a moment and read Isaiah 52.  See yourself in that passage and say this prayer with me.  Lord God almighty I come before you as your daughter, knowing full well what you have spoken over me I stand and shake off the dust of complacency and stillness and I take off the chains that I myself at times put on.  The chains of bitterness, restfulness, anger; chains of doubt, low self-esteem and fear.  I stand and I take them off and I will dress myself with the garments of praise and joy and I will go out and be who you have created me to be. In Jesus name Amen.