I once was lost but now I am found. I am found in Christ and my gratefulness for this reality cannot adequately be described in words. I get choked up with gratefulness when I think about what being found in Christ means. In my life it means, among many things, redemption and forgiveness and grace. What was ashes in my life he has turned into beauty. To say that I am grateful is an understatement.
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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