Are you ready to be His ROCK?

Today being the feast of St. Peter and Paul I thought I might share a simple reflection with you. Last night  when reading through today's gospel with our girls I asked them why they thought that God might have chosen Peter to be His rock.  Peter had nothing to offer.  He was a simple fisherman without an education and apparently no great intelligence.  He had had no great “formation”.  Yet Jesus said to him,” You are my Rock and upon this rock I will build my church.”  So what was the rock that Jesus saw in Peter?  It was nothing but his faith in, his great love for, and his complete submission to his friend Jesus.  This was the rock on which Jesus would build His church.  On the other hand Paul was the exact opposite.  He was a man with a superior education, extremely intelligent, zealous and passionate about his religious beliefs and his love for God, passionate to the point where he was prosecuting the followers of Jesus believing them to be blasphemers of the true God.   Yet he too was chosen to be a rock.   But Jesus had to “get him off his high horse first”.  And it was only when he came down form that high horse that he understood that all that he had lost was rubbish when compared to what he had found in Jesus Christ.  So I take the opportunity to put this question to you.  Jesus calls you to be His rock.  He wants to build something on you, some part of his church.  Think about it.  What is the foundation in you that Jesus is looking for? Are you ready to be His ROCK?