--- title: Daily Scriptures Reflection for 8/2/12 description: Daily Scriptures Reflection for 8/2/12 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2012/08/02/daily-scriptures-reflection-for-8212#) # Daily Scriptures Reflection for 8/2/12 Aug 2, 2012 5:00:55 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) [![](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png "03_Thursday_Bible")](http://catholicmom.com/2012/05/17/daily-scriptures-reflection-for-51712/03_thursday_bible/) Daily Scriptures Reflection for Thursday Scripture: Lectionary 404. Jeremiah 18:1-6. Psalm 146:1-2.2-4.5-6.5b. Matthew 13:47-53: [Thursday's Readings](http://usccb.org/bible/readings/080212.cfm) Jeremiah gives us a good lesson in humility today. We all can use that type of help in a difficult virtue that takes us out of our “persona” look and puts us into the transparency of God’s Person working within our hearts. Jeremiah learns from God that the image of a potter working with clay is a good way of seeing ourselves as we truly are. We all come from the Creator who took us from the clay of the earth (Adamah is the red clay characteristic of the Middle East—and of red mud around the airport around Atlanta!).(cf. Genesis 2:7,19). Sophisticated, as we are, we think anthropomorphically when it comes to imaging God. So Jeremiah is able to help us by putting things in perspective and showing us that we are similar to the clay in the hands of a potter. When we make mistakes and sluff off through our pride, the potter just removes that excess mass of clay and makes us anew through the grace of his artistry. Genesis has grounded us literally in the dirt and clay from which we are made. Saint Paul confirms this by telling us we are “vessels of clay” or earthen vessels.(II Cor. 4:7; Romans 9:21). Humility hurts but it does make us new again in God’s sight. God is the maker and we are the clay according to the inspired words of Jeremiah. Jesus uses picturesque language and imagery to bring home a different lesson for us today than the one Jeremiah has shared with us. The Kingdom of God is likened to a large net cast into the sea which brings all sorts of aquatic creatures into its far reaching web. All of us belong in that net, but not all are chosen because of the condition in which we are found upon examination by the one who cast the net. Being accepted consists in whether we are good; not being selected means we need to go back into the sea and grow some more and become healthy for the next casting. These parables are not simply lessons or teachings. Parables open up for us the revelation of the divine plan of salvation meant for all. We listen to the great Evangelist who has gathered the parables together in this wonderful chapter 13 of the Third Great Discourse of Jesus. We may see in the image of the scribe who brings things out of his treasures new things together with old things. This scribe named Matthew gives us a masterpiece that helps us to discern and discover the understanding of the parables of Jesus which are the keys to God’s revelatory and salving words and plans for us. We are fortunate that Matthew leads us to this discovery and we become agents in the bringing about the kingdom of God in the here and now. Amen. ***Copyright 2012 Fr. 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