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 08/20/2020

The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths, phrased as “portions” or “sides”.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these four sides. What four? The side of identity, the side of the origin of identity, the side of the cessation of identity, and the side of the practice that leads to the cessation of identity. And what is the side of identity? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 08/20/2020

Hear, O Israel: Thou {art} to pass over Jordan this… Hear, O Israel: Thou {art} to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and {of whom} thou hast heard {say}, Who can stand before the children of Anak! Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God {is} he which goeth over before thee; {as} a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto theeSpeak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/19/2020

The perception of impermanence eliminates lust, ignorance, and conceit. Illustrated with a long series of similes.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when the perception of impermanence is developed and cultivated it eliminates all desire for sensual pleasures, for rebirth in the realm of luminous form, and for rebirth in a future life. It eliminates all ignorance and eradicates all conceit ‘I am’. In the autumn, a farmer ploughing with a large plough shears through all the root networks. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 08/19/2020

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and… And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and seeAnd I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/18/2020

Contemplating the aggregates leads to liberation, but this may not be immediately apparent. The Buddha illustrates this with similes of a chook sitting on eggs, the wearing away of an axe handle, and the rotting of a ship’s rigging.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I say that the ending of defilements is for one who knows and sees, not for one who does not know or see. For one who knows and sees what? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 08/18/2020

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king… Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, {that} Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took themAnd the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/17/2020

A dog leashed to a post will always remain close to that post. In the same way, beings remain close to aggregates in this endless cycle of transmigration. The Buddha refers to a well-known painting called “Conduct”, and says the mind is even more diverse than that; and indeed, the animal realm is the most diverse of them all, and it is produced by the mind.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 08/17/2020

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High… He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty{abide: Heb. lodge} I will say of the LORD, {He is} my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, {and} from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth {shall be thy} shield and buckler. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/16/2020

Transmigration has no knowable beginning; even the oceans, mountains, and this great earth will perish. But like a dog on a leash running around a post, beings remain attached to the aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. There comes a time when the ocean dries up and evaporates and is no more. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 08/16/2020

All the commandments which I command thee this day… All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathersAnd thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, {and} to prove thee, to know what {was} in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. [Read More]