My Faith Looks Up To Thee

Faith is a choice, not a feeling. No really. It is. I don't always feel like believing and having faith but I make a choice. Because feelings are fickle and unreliable. In Jeremiah it says that the heart is deceitful and beyond cure, who can understand it? Well God understands our hearts, he's the only one because he's the one who created it. What is deceitful about our hearts? They run on feelings and feelings are fickle. We can't base belief on feelings, we have to override our feelings and choose. So I choose and my faith looks up to HIM. He is my strength, he is my zeal, he is my everything especially when my feelings threaten my choices. How about you? Have you been able to order an override or have you been living off of feelings? I encourage you, I pray that you will make the choice to allow your faith to look up to HIM.

My Faith Looks Up To Thee - Tisa
My Faith Looks Up To Thee - Guy Penrod

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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.

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.

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