Have You Any Room For Jesus?

Ever read "My heart, Christ's home"? It tackles the subject matter of today's hymn. In fact, today's hymn is kind of like the soundtrack to that book(let). I HIGHLY recommend it, it's short but deep.
In my experiences and observations the reason people don't have room for Jesus is because he wants to move in completely and occupy every space and people don't like that. Our ego's simply won't allow for Jesus to occupy.
But he stands, oh so patiently and without force, and waits for us to allow his access. He bore your load of sin, can you not now let him in?

Have You Any Room For Jesus? (BLUEGRASS!!)
Have You Any Room For Jesus? (What you would hear in a small Baptist church on a Sunday morning!)

Comments

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.

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.

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.

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