I read that in their 1909 high school yearbook, students in the high school in Abilene, Kansas, where young Dwight D. Eisenhower attended school, voted him most likely to be a history teacher in the future. Strangely enough, they voted his brother, Edgar Eisenhower, as most likely to be elected President of the United States.

The other disciples were probably surprised when Jesus named Simon "Rocky Johnson" and declared that "upon this rock I will build my church." Surely there were others who were better qualified and less likely to embarrass the Lord. The disciples simply did not yet know the power of Christ's grace. And that same grace is still your hope and mine today.