Who are you really?

 Why do I ask this as I write here on Myrtle's blog? It is because very few people know who they really are. So many people identify themselves with and by their job, income, hobbies, education, talents, skills, and even their husband or wife. On a more simplistic term they may be as shallow as identity by their car, or a sports team even a TV show.  We are a shallow people. We are lost and separated from our creator God and this results in a facade of a life. We don't know who we are and if when we do know we don't want others to know what we are really like, for if they did they may not want to be around us. But once we come to trust Christ as Savior through his death, burial and resurrection from the dead the third day we can have a new nature, a new life.  Then and only then can we be becoming who we truly are. Yet many Christians even don't know who they really are. They simply play the game. They cloak themselves in religious activity and act in some way loving or faithful behavior but it is all of themselves and not Christ, so the glory goes to them because that is what they want. Its about me not you.

But Myrtle Rockwell was different. She was a transparent person because she knew who she was. She knew what she wanted to do at a very early age and that was a nurse. And as a young girl her mother taught her about God and his word the Bible and in that Myrtle began trusting God in the grace salvation that He offers free, that by the sending of his unique Son to die on the cross for our sins. All Myrtle's life she did as she was a servant. She wanted to be a nurse to help people; that's what she told me. She was always helping someone, family, friends and patients. And as a nurse she met her husband Captain Rockwell.

Myrtle was not caught up in the false religion of being legalistic like "don't do that" or "you can't do that" that is not what God wants; he provided the grace salvation to be saved from the wrath to come and to live ours lives daily pleasing Him. Myrtle never prejudged anyone, she gave her full attention to anyone she was with and was talking to. She did not have to be the life of the party, she would make "you" the life of the party. That is what Myrtle was like. I was truly blessed to have met her and had the opportunity to have served the Lord by helping Myrtle for ten years. If I had it to do over again I would do it  gladly!!!!

I miss you Myrtle!!!  But I know I will see you again in our Lord's Kingdom and Heaven!