We are rather selfish beings. You can see it in small children. Remember those piñatas? Remember how when it broke open and candy went everywhere how you would fight and scrap to get as much as you could, even if it meant knocking the little girl in the flowered-dress over, or giving the snotty-nosed boy a black eye? Well, maybe you weren’t that violent. However, that attitude carries with us into adulthood. We try to get as much as we can. We try to hoard and accumulate wealth, strength, power, position and influence. We want to be strong, and we’re scared that if we give any hint of weakness, we’ll lose it all and our castle will crumble. Did you know, God is very interested in making you strong. However, He has a different agenda. He doesn’t want you strong in material possession or finances. He wants you strong of soul. But let me take it a step further. He doesn’t just want you to rush in and collect as much “spiritual candy” as possible, leaving that little girl in the flower dress out to dry. He wants to make you strong to spend you. He wants His men and His women to be broken bread and poured out wine. He wants to make you strong, so you can be poured out for the orphan, the widow, the lost, the vulnerable, the unborn, the downcast, the mute, the lame, the crippled, and the blind!