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 03/03/2020

Posted on March 3, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are even a problem for a perfected one, as they interfere with their meditation.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, possessions, honor, and popularity are an obstacle even for a mendicant who is perfected, with defilements ended.” When he said this, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha, “Sir, what do possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct for a mendicant with defilements ended?” “Ānanda, I don’t say that possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct the unshakable freedom of heart. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #30. A Mendicant With Defilements Ended 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/03/2020

Posted on March 3, 2020

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to… Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: {so doth} a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom {and} honour{Dead…: Heb. Flies of death} A wise man's heart {is} at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth {him}, and he saith to every one {that} he {is} a fool. [Read More]
#Christian  #Ecclesiastes  #Ecclesiastes 10 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/02/2020

Posted on March 2, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise cut to the bone, like a rope.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … They cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until they reach the marrow and stay pressing there. Suppose a strong man was to twist a tough horse-hair rope around your shin and tighten it. It would cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until it reached the marrow and stayed pressing there. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #29. A Rope 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/02/2020

Posted on March 2, 2020

[{A Psalm} of David, when he changed his behaviour… [{A Psalm} of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed] I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise {shall} continually {be} in my mouth. {Abimelech: or, Achish} My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear {thereof}, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. [Read More]
#Christian  #Psalm  #Psalm 34 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 03/01/2020

Posted on March 1, 2020

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,… And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons {shall be} for the LORD by thy estimationAnd thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. [Read More]
#Christian  #Leviticus  #Leviticus 27 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/29/2020

Posted on February 29, 2020

Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand possessions, honor, and popularity, their origin, their cessation, and the path that leads to their cessation … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #27. Ascetics and Brahmins (3rd) 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 02/29/2020

Posted on February 29, 2020

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,… Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; {In: or, For} But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; To Titus, {mine} own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, {and} peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our SaviourFor this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: {wanting: or, left undone} If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. [Read More]
#Christian  #Titus  #Titus 1 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/28/2020

Posted on February 28, 2020

Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand the origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #26. Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd) 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 02/28/2020

Posted on February 28, 2020

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare… For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, {are} in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred {by} all {that is} before them{I considered…: Heb. I gave, or, set to my heart} All {things come} alike to all: {there is} one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as {is} the good, so {is} the sinner; {and} he that sweareth, as {he} that feareth an oath. [Read More]
#Christian  #Ecclesiastes  #Ecclesiastes 9