You can be a servant of God.

Or, you can be a manipulator of people.

I don’t see how you can be both.

… the ‘traditional’ reading that Jesus was born in a stable actually distorts the story of Jesus’ birth, and mutes the central message of the Christmas story—that Jesus wasn’t born in a place where we can happily visit once a year, and then forget about. Rather, he comes to the centre of human life, and cannot so easily be romanticised or ignored.
— Read on www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/does-it-matter-that-jesus-wasnt-born-in-a-stable/

Jesus is coming.

I can promise because he promised and continues to promise.

Marana tha.