 Well, persevere, the more generous we are, the more we're prepared to invest our money in Christ, to pour out our money into him and over him. Poverty is also giving up our money, and it could be seen as anointing Christ's body. We think of those two episodes of women anointing Christ's body with expensive ointments, and the reaction of Judas, which was the opposite of poverty. He stole the money.