A Spiritual Dilemma - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2025

Bible in a Year : 1 Samuel 1-3, Luke 8:26-56

Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise.
Psalm 145:3

Today's Scripture & Insight : Psalm 145:1-8

The average person checks his or her phone 150 times a day. Let that sink in a minute. Our phones have our attention—sometimes for our good, but sometimes not. Tristan Harris has concerns about this. He’s one of the voices in a film that features some of the top names in technology, people who ushered us into the world of social media. But instead of praise, their voices are sounding an alarm, calling our reality (and the film) The Social Dilemma. “We’re the product. Our attention is the product being sold to advertisers.” We give our attention to what we believe is valuable or worthy. And in a very real sense, what we give our attention to we can find ourselves worshipping.

That word dilemma indicates a situation where a choice has to be made. Believe it or not, we face such a dilemma in our spiritual lives, a choice we have to make daily: Who or what will I give my attention to? In other words, Who or what will I worship? The psalmist clearly made his choice: “Every day I will praise you [God] and extol your name for ever and ever” (Psalm 145:2). The verse that follows gives his rationale: “Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom” (v. 3).

The psalmist believed nothing compares to God’s greatness, and so he focused his attention there. God and God alone is worthy of our praise.

By: John Blase

Reflect & Pray
In contrast to time for praying or reading Scripture, what vies for your attention? What would help you keep your desire on God?

God, You alone are worthy of my praise. Nothing compares to You.