Psalm 100:3

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves....

I remember hearing this verse as a child and thinking, “No kidding. How could anybody think that they made themselves?” Sadly, as an adult I see that this is, after all, a common misconception. Many people are not only in rebellion against God, but against their own nature, because it is something chosen and made by God and not by them. They really want to make themselves, and they have deluded themselves into believing that this is possible.