Welcome to Daily Digital Devotion

This website is meant to be your source for a daily scripture to read and contemplate. Regardless of religion there is something we can all gain by reading scripture daily. Let us rejoice in the universe! Below are the most recent posts to start your journey.

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/27/2019

Posted on June 27, 2019

A stuck-up brahmin listening to the Buddha teach is awestruck when the Buddha appears to read his mind. To the surprise of the crowd, he bows and kisses the Buddha’s feet. The Buddha tells him to take his seat, and they exchange verses on the topic of conceit.At Sāvatthī. Now at that time a brahmin named Stuck-Up was residing in Sāvatthī. He didn’t bow to his mother or father, his teacher, or his oldest brother. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 7  #2. Lay Followers  #15. Stuck-Up 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/27/2019

Posted on June 27, 2019

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law,… Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, {even} to HorebAnd the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush {was} not consumed. [Read More]
#Christian  #Exodus  #Exodus 3 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/26/2019

Posted on June 26, 2019

A brahmin is shabby clothes has been kicked out of his home by ungrateful sons. The Buddha gives him a verse to recite in the village council, comparing his faithless sons to his trusty wooden staff. Ashamed, the sons take back their father, bathe and dress him.At Sāvatthī. Then a certain well-to-do brahmin, shabby, wearing a shabby cloak, went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 7  #2. Lay Followers  #14. A well-to-do brahmin 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/26/2019

Posted on June 26, 2019

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go… Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? [Read More]
#Christian  #1Corinthians  #1Corinthians 6 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/25/2019

Posted on June 25, 2019

The Buddha is ill and sends his attendant monk Upavāṇa to fetch some hot water. A brahmin gives him not just water, but also molasses to ease his stomach. Later the brahmin visits the Buddha to discuss generosity.At Sāvatthī. Now at that time the Buddha was afflicted by winds. Venerable Upavāṇa was his carer. Then the Buddha said to Upavāṇa, “Please, Upavāṇa, find some hot water for me.” “Yes, sir,” replied Upavāṇa. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 7  #2. Lay Followers  #13. With Devahita 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/25/2019

Posted on June 25, 2019

Then Job answered and said,… Then Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed {that} ye make yourselves strange to me{make…: or, harden yourselves against me} And be it indeed {that} I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. If indeed ye will magnify {yourselves} against me, and plead against me my reproach: Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. [Read More]
#Christian  #Job  #Job 19 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/24/2019

Posted on June 24, 2019

A brahmin complains when the Buddha visits for alms again and again. The Buddha takes the chance to point out that all natural phenomena repeat in cycles, and only an awakened one escapes the cycle.At Sāvatthī. Then the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to the home of the brahmin Udaya. Then Udaya filled the Buddha’s bowl with rice. The next day … and the day after that … Udaya filled the Buddha’s bowl with rice. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 7  #2. Lay Followers  #12. With Udaya 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/24/2019

Posted on June 24, 2019

And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon… And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing {their} netsAnd he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. [Read More]
#Christian  #Luke  #Luke 5 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/23/2019

Posted on June 23, 2019

A brahmin farmer criticizes the Buddha for failing to produce food, merely living off the work of others. But the Buddha shows that his true work is spiritual.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Magadhans in the Southern Hills near the brahmin village of Ekanāḷa. Now at that time the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Farmer had harnessed around five hundred plows, it being the season for sowing. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 7  #2. Lay Followers  #11. With Bhāradvāja the Farmer 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/23/2019

Posted on June 23, 2019

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took… And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took {to wife} a daughter of LeviAnd the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he {was a} goodly {child}, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid {it} in the flags by the river's brink. [Read More]
#Christian  #Exodus  #Exodus 2