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 09/09/2020

Mahākoṭṭhita asks what an educated mendicant should focus on, and Sāriputta replies that if they focus on aggregates as impermanent, etc. they may become a stream-enterer. A stream-enterer contemplating in the same way may become a non-returner, a once-returner, and a perfected one.At one time Venerable Sāriputta and Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita were staying near Benares, in the deer park at Isipatana. Then in the late afternoon, Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita came out of retreat, went to Venerable Sāriputta, bowed, sat down to one side, and said: “Reverend Sāriputta, what things should an educated mendicant properly attend to? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 09/09/2020

At the end of {every} seven years thou shalt make a… At the end of {every} seven years thou shalt make a releaseAnd this {is} the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth {ought} unto his neighbour shall release {it}; he shall not exact {it} of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. {creditor: Heb. master of the lending of his hand} Of a foreigner thou mayest exact {it again}: but {that} which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance to possess it: {Save…: or, To the end that there be no poor among you} Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/08/2020

Mahākoṭṭhita asks what an ethical mendicant should focus on, and Sāriputta replies that if they focus on aggregates as impermanent, etc. they may become a stream-enterer. A stream-enterer contemplating in the same way may become a non-returner, a once-returner, and a perfected one.At one time Venerable Sāriputta and Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita were staying near Benares, in the deer park at Isipatana. Then in the late afternoon, Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita came out of retreat, went to Venerable Sāriputta, and said: “Reverend Sāriputta, what things should an ethical mendicant properly attend to? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 09/08/2020

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and… And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship thereinBut the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty {and} two months. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/07/2020

The aggregates are the things that are graspable, the craving is the grasping.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the things that are prone to being grasped, and the grasping. Listen … What are the things that are prone to being grasped? And what is the grasping? Form is something that’s prone to being grasped. The desire and greed for it is the grasping. Feeling … Perception … Choices … Consciousness is something that’s prone to being grasped. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 09/07/2020

Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people… Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew {their} strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgmentWho raised up the righteous {man} from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made {him} rule over kings? he gave {them} as the dust to his sword, {and} as driven stubble to his bow. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/06/2020

The aggregates are the things that fetter, the craving is the fetter.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the things that are prone to being fettered, and the fetter. Listen … What are the things that are prone to being fettered? And what is the fetter? Form is something that’s prone to being fettered. The desire and greed for it is the fetter. Feeling … Perception … Choices … Consciousness is something that’s prone to being fettered. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 09/06/2020

The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth… The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth {between} the cherubims; let the earth be moved{be moved: Heb. stagger} The LORD {is} great in Zion; and he {is} high above all the people. Let them praise thy great and terrible name; {for} it {is} holy. The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 09/05/2020

The Buddha questions the mendicants on the aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “What do you think, mendicants? Do you regard form like this: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self’?” “Yes, sir.” “Good, mendicants! Form should be truly seen with right understanding like this: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.’ Do you regard feeling … perception … choices … consciousness like this: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self’? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 09/05/2020

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of… If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soulYe shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. [Read More]