This is a time of fear and worry. Many in America have lost their jobs: thousands of factories have closed in China, and the unions are desperately fighting to keep the conditions for workers — as unemployment climbs — in Europe.

The governments are borrowing. And people want bread they have not earned. From today’s reading… Paul says “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.” We worry about what we cannot control. We should make it our concern to deal with what we can control.

John 6:41-51

41Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’

via PCUSA – Devotions.