For Wednesday, March 6: Is his presence enough?

Our questions never hold up in the presence of God. His presence is the answer. John Schultz

Once I am really and truly in the presence of God all of my questions seem insignificant. Once I am in his presence I realize that all that matters is him. He is the answer to all that my mind is trying to figure out. If I could keep this realization at the forefront of my mind and heart things in life would be a bit easier I suspect. If I could be mindful of remaining in his presence then my days would look and feel a lot different. There is liberty in uttering the answer, and believing it, "I don't know but God does" and then letting God work the answer into my life. It is one thing to utter that, it is a whole other thing to be in his presence and believe that. Job is a great example of this. He had lots and lots of questions for God but he also knew that even though he wasn't privvy to the answers God had them. And so Job trusted in God's presence being enough for the answers to his questions. How about you? Can you, do you, trust God's presence to be enough?

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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