The first reading for today's Mass from Jeremiah 18: 1-6 and the Gospel from Matthew 13:47-53 complement each other in providing a challenging as well as a consoling pattern for those who are seeking a deeper relationship with God, or, as we discussed yesterday, the "pearl of great price." (Mt 13:46). Jeremiah likens the disciple to a lump of clay on the potter's wheel. The potter works with the clay to create an object, but sometimes, he fails and has to start over again. He works at it diligently until his creation matches his expectation.
Jesus says that "every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven...etc .(Mt 13: 52). He uses the word "instructed" but the real meaning is "discipled" i.e. made into a disciple, a process like the clay on the wheel takes time, effort, and several attempts to achieve.
We, the disciples of today, are on that wheel, turning out below expectations time and time again, but the consoling news is that the potter NEVER stops trying to bring about "the perfect version" of what he is trying to mold. We thus can relax and be at peace with our faults, inadequacies, deficiencies, for we are not the potter we are IN THE HANDS OF THE POTTER! May we let go and let him do his work, confident that in HIS time, we will turn out as he intends.
Bro. Rene
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