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 06/06/2020

Posted on June 6, 2020

Beings are attached to the five aggregates due to gratification, repelled due to drawbacks, and find escape because there is an escape.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, if there were no gratification in form, sentient beings wouldn’t love it. But because there is gratification in form, sentient beings do love it. If form had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it. But because form has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #28. Gratification (3rd) 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/06/2020

Posted on June 6, 2020

[To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, {A Psalm} of… [To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, {A Psalm} of David] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto {my} soul. I sink in deep mire, where {there is} no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. {deep mire: Heb. the mire of depth} {deep waters: Heb. depth of waters} I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. [Read More]
#Christian  #Psalm  #Psalm 69 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/05/2020

Posted on June 5, 2020

When the Buddha fully knew the gratification, drawback, and escape regarding the five aggregates he became awakened.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I went in search of form’s gratification, and I found it. I’ve seen clearly with wisdom the full extent of form’s gratification. I went in search of form’s drawback, and I found it. I’ve seen clearly with wisdom the full extent of form’s drawback. I went in search of form’s escape, and I found it. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #27. Gratification (2nd) 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/05/2020

Posted on June 5, 2020

And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD… And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in IsraelAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan {near} Jericho, saying, {Take the sum of the people}, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt. [Read More]
#Christian  #Numbers  #Numbers 26 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/04/2020

Posted on June 4, 2020

Before his awakening, the Buddha investigated the aggregates in terms of their gratification, drawback, and escape.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought: ‘What’s the gratification, the drawback, and the escape when it comes to form … feeling … perception … choices … and consciousness?’ Then it occurred to me: ‘The pleasure and happiness that arise from form: this is its gratification. That form is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #26. Gratification 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/04/2020

Posted on June 4, 2020

Likewise, ye wives, {be} in subjection to your own… Likewise, ye wives, {be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation {coupled} with fearWhose adorning let it not be that outward {adorning} of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But {let it be} the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, {even the ornament} of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. [Read More]
#Christian  #1Peter  #1Peter 3 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/03/2020

Posted on June 3, 2020

By letting go desire, the aggregates come to an end.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, give up desire and greed for form. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. Give up desire and greed for feeling … perception … choices … consciousness. Thus that consciousness will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #25. Desire and Greed 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/03/2020

Posted on June 3, 2020

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab… The burden of MoabBecause in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, {and} brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, {and} brought to silence; {brought…: or, cut off} He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads {shall be} baldness, {and} every beard cut off. [Read More]
#Christian  #Isaiah  #Isaiah 15 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/02/2020

Posted on June 2, 2020

Only by directly knowing the aggregates can one end suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, without directly knowing and completely understanding form, without dispassion for it and giving it up, you can’t end suffering. Without directly knowing and completely understanding feeling … perception … choices … consciousness, without dispassion for it and giving it up, you can’t end suffering. By directly knowing and completely understanding form, having dispassion for it and giving it up, you can end suffering. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #3. The Burden  #24. Directly Knowing 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 06/02/2020

Posted on June 2, 2020

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm {or} Song of David.]… [To the chief Musician, A Psalm {or} Song of David] Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. {before…: Heb. from his face} As smoke is driven away, {so} drive {them} away: as wax melteth before the fire, {so} let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. [Read More]
#Christian  #Psalm  #Psalm 68