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 06/11/2020

Posted on June 11, 2020

Let go of what is not yours: the five aggregates. You wouldn’t be upset if someone took the grass and sticks from the monastery grounds, so why worry over the aggregates?At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, give up what’s not yours. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. And what isn’t yours? Form isn’t yours: give it up. Giving it up will be for your welfare and happiness. Feeling … Perception … Choices … Consciousness isn’t yours: give it up. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #4. It’s Not Yours  #33. It’s Not Yours 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/11/2020

Posted on June 11, 2020

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away… The burden of DamascusBehold, Damascus is taken away from {being} a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer {are} forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make {them} afraid. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. [Read More]
#Christian  #Isaiah  #Isaiah 17-18 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/10/2020

Posted on June 10, 2020

The aggregates are fragile and their passing is not fragile.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the breakable and the unbreakable. Listen … And what is the breakable? What is the unbreakable? Form is breakable, but its cessation, settling, and ending is unbreakable. Feeling … perception … choices … consciousness is breakable, but its cessation, settling, and ending is unbreakable.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #32. The Breakable 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/10/2020

Posted on June 10, 2020

[To the chief Musician, {A Psalm} of David, to bring… [To the chief Musician, {A Psalm} of David, to bring to remembrance] {Make haste}, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD. {to help…: Heb. to my help} Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. [Read More]
#Christian  #Psalm  #Psalm 70-71 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/09/2020

Posted on June 9, 2020

The aggregates are misery, desire for them is the root of misery.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you misery and the root of misery. Listen … And what is misery? Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are misery. This is called misery. And what is the root of misery? It’s the craving that leads to future lives, mixed up with relishing and greed, taking pleasure in various different realms. That is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving to continue existence, and craving to end existence. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #31. The Root of Misery 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/09/2020

Posted on June 9, 2020

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher,… Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these {are} the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and TirzahAnd they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, {by} the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. [Read More]
#Christian  #Numbers  #Numbers 27 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/08/2020

Posted on June 8, 2020

The arising of the aggregates is the arising of suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, the arising, continuation, rebirth, and manifestation of form is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death. The arising, continuation, rebirth, and manifestation of feeling … perception … choices … consciousness is the arising of suffering, the continuation of diseases, and the manifestation of old age and death. The cessation, settling, and ending of form is the cessation of suffering, the settling of diseases, and the ending of old age and death. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #30. Arising 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/08/2020

Posted on June 8, 2020

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the… Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of GodFor the time past of {our} life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with {them} to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of {you}: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. [Read More]
#Christian  #1Peter  #1Peter 4 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/07/2020

Posted on June 7, 2020

If you enjoy the aggregates, you enjoy suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, if you take pleasure in form, you take pleasure in suffering. If you take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re not exempt from suffering. If you take pleasure in feeling … perception … choices … consciousness, you take pleasure in suffering. If you take pleasure in suffering, I say you’re not exempt from suffering. If you don’t take pleasure in form, you don’t take pleasure in suffering. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #29. Taking Pleasure 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/07/2020

Posted on June 7, 2020

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela… Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion{Sela: or, Petra: Heb. A rock} For it shall be, {that}, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, {so} the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. {cast…: or, a nest forsaken} Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. [Read More]
#Christian  #Isaiah  #Isaiah 16