God is the authority, whose ways are vastly beyond what we humans can possibly comprehend or fathom, as St. Paul marvels at in great wonder in the 2nd reading. So it's even more unfathomable that God would give authority to us mere humans to be part of doing His work.
When Peter declares in response to His question that Christ is the Messiah, Jesus grants Him the privilege of being the foundation for His Church, and holding its keys, a symbol of authority. Yet this doesn't occur because Peter comes up with this brilliant statement by himself. God granted this knowledge to Peter. God alone makes us worthy, not because of what we have done, but purely by an act of His grace.
Aware of how amazing His grace is, we stand before God, compelled to see Him for who He is, and then live our lives on the foundation of this knowledge God reveals to us, as we build His Kingdom.
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