For Sunday, May 15: All To Jesus I Surrender

It's interesting to me that as I am in a struggle with the Church of today I find myself desiring to go back to my "spiritual roots" and sit in a Baptist sanctuary each Sunday and sing hymns and enter back into the kind of structure that I haven't been a part of in a very long time since I have been in a non-denominational church for so long.
I LOVE this hymn. Okay, confession. I love most every hymn. They seem much more God focused than us focused like the contemporary song of today. Or perhaps that just my struggle focused perspective I carry with me these days! :)
But back to the hymn...
I don't think I really know what true surrender is. I think I'm learning (slowly, oh so sloooooooowly!) but I don't think I fully grasp it yet. What makes it okay that I haven't gotten the fullness of surrender yet is God's grace. His grace carries me through my stumblings. I've had glimpses, I've experienced glimpses of surrendering all for him but I haven't made the 100% transition yet. Who has? I'm not sure anyone has yet because we are all in process and his grace is leading us through. Thank goodness my Creator knows my heart and he knows my heart is to surrender ALL to him.

All To Jesus I Surrender (with vocals)
All To Jesus I Surrender (instrumental - 11 minutes long which includes a couple of instrumental versions of the song! For a more upbeat version skip ahead to 3:30! :) )

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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