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 05/08/2019

Māra threatens the Buddha with a “mental snare” in the sky.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse: “There’s a mental snare wandering the sky. I’ll bind you with it—you won’t escape me, ascetic!” “Sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and touches so delightful: desire for these is gone from me. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/08/2019

But Job answered and said,… But Job answered and said, Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heblifted up} For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. {my words…: that is, I want words to express my grief} For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/07/2019

Māra discourages the Buddha from teaching, warning him that he will become corrupted by favoritism.At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kosalans near the brahmin village of Ekasālā. Now, at that time the Buddha was teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly of laypeople. Then Māra thought, “The ascetic Gotama is teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly of laypeople. Why don’t I go and pull the wool over their eyes? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/07/2019

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts… And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them againAnd the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away {his} wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/06/2019

The Buddha rests after being struck by stone splinters, and Māra criticizes him for being lazy.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Maddakucchi deer park. Now at that time the Buddha’s foot had been cut by a splinter. The Buddha was stricken by harrowing pains; physical feelings that were painful, sharp, severe, acute, unpleasant, and disagreeable. But he endured with mindfulness and situational awareness, without worrying. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/06/2019

And it came to pass after these things, {that} the… And it came to pass after these things, {that} the butler of the king of Egypt and {his} baker had offended their lord the king of EgyptAnd Pharaoh was wroth against two {of} his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph {was} bound. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/05/2019

Māra criticizes the Buddha for his lion’s roar, asserting that the Buddha is not in fact peerless.At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now, at that time the Buddha was teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly. Then Māra thought, “The ascetic Gotama is teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly. Why don’t I go and pull the wool over their eyes?” Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse: “Why now do you roar like a lion? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/05/2019

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience… I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heartFor I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: {accursed: or, separated} Who are Israelites; to whom {pertaineth} the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service {of God}, and the promises; {covenants: or, testaments} Whose {are} the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ {came}, who is over all, God blessed for ever. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/04/2019

Māra smashes boulders in an attempt to scare the Buddha.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. Now at that time the Buddha was meditating in the open during the dark of night, while a gentle rain drizzled down. Then Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the Buddha feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, approached him, and crushed some large boulders close by him. Then the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, addressed him in verse: “Even if you shake this entire Vulture’s Peak, the rightly released, the awakened, are unshaken. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/04/2019

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and… Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? {turn: or, look?} For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one{envy: or, indignation} I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}. [Read More]