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 03/09/2019

In a parable of a solar eclipse, the sun god Suriya is swallowed by the demon lord Rāhu. Suriya appeals to the Buddha, who tells Rāhu to let go. This sutta is recited as a protection verse.At Sāvatthī. Now at that time the Sun God had been seized by Rāhu, lord of demons. Then the Sun God, recollecting the Buddha, at that time recited this verse: “Homage to you, Buddha, hero! [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/09/2019

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience… On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; {they..: Heb. there was read} {audience: Heb. ears} Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/08/2019

In a parable of a lunar eclipse, the moon god Candimā is swallowed by the demon lord Rāhu. Candimā appeals to the Buddha, who tells Rāhu to let go. This sutta is recited as a protection verse.At Sāvatthī. Now at that time the Moon God had been seized by Rāhu, lord of demons. Then the Moon God, recollecting the Buddha, at that time recited this verse: “Homage to you, Buddha, hero! [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/08/2019

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,… Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, {that} observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do notFor they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay {them} on men's shoulders; but they {themselves} will not move them with one of their fingers. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/07/2019

Tāyana, a deity who was in a past life was a leader of a non-Buddhist sect, speaks a series of verses in praise of strenuous exertion and discipline. These famous verses are commonly recited by Theravadin monks.At Sāvatthī. Then, late at night, the glorious god Tāyana, formerly a religious founder, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and recited these verses in the Buddha’s presence: “Strive and cut the stream! [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/07/2019

And Abraham was old, {and} well stricken in age: and… And Abraham was old, {and} well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things{well…: Heb. gone into days} And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/06/2019

Pañcālacaṇḍa praises the Buddha for finding the opening amid the confinement of the world. But the Buddha affirms that anyone with mindfulness and stillness may find such an escape.At Sāvatthī. Standing to one side, the god Pañcālacaṇḍa recited this verse in the Buddha’s presence: “The opening amid confinement was discovered by the Buddha of vast intelligence, who woke up to absorption, the sage, the solitary bull.” “Even amid confinement they discover,” said the Buddha to Pañcālacaṇḍa, “the principle for attaining extinguishment. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/06/2019

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence {which… Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence {which I make} now unto you(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) I am verily a man {which am} a Jew, born in Tarsus, {a city} in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, {and} taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/05/2019

The deity Kāmada addresses the Buddha with a series of cryptic statements lamenting the difficulty of spiritual practice. The Buddha agrees, but points out that true practitioners do it even though it’s hard.At Sāvatthī. Standing to one side, the god Kāmada said to the Buddha, “It’s too hard, Blessed One! It’s just too hard!” “They do it even though it’s hard,” said the Buddha to Kāmada, “the stable trainees with ethics, and immersion. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/05/2019

Now these {are} the priests and the Levites that went… Now these {are} the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, {Malluch: also called, Melicu} Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, {Shechaniah: also called, Shebaniah} {Rehum: also called, Harim} {Meremoth: also called, Meraioth} Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah, {Ginnetho: also called, Ginnethon} Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, {Miamin: also called, Miniamin} {Maadiah: also called, Moadiah} Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, JedaiahThese {were} the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua. [Read More]