There is no life apart from God, there is only Death apart from God in Christ Jesus! Jeremiah 51: 15-19:

There is no life apart from God, there is only Death apart from God in Christ Jesus!
Jeremiah 51: 15-19:
“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. 16 When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 17 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 19 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name."

Man can never make what God has made, Even though they delude themselves into thinking they can apart from God! There is no life to be made or can be made apart from God and the Life that God has already made and created. There is no life apart from God, there is only Death apart from God in Christ Jesus!

Man can never duplicate God's creation or remake themselves in their own image without impunity and receiving their just punishment and just do of God's wrath.
Man can never make what God has made, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made by God's mighty Hand! Psalm 139.

We may think we can replace what God has made with the work of our own hands, but our delusions have blinded our eyes, for God is irreplaceable and you can never replace the glory of God with images made by the hands of man to look like man and the created order. Romans 1:18-24.

First, we are already Created by God! Nobody is self made, nor did they carve themselves out of gold, silver or even the Rocks.
Second, All of Creation attests to the glory of Almighty God the Creator of the Uiniverse.
Comclusion, we are under the sin cursed imperfect nature that always pursues to live life apart from God our Creator, since the fall. We always seek to replace the Knowledge of God with the false images of the flesh made to look like images of man or the beasts of the field in homage and false ascribing to the worship of the created, rather than the worship of God who is forever Blessed!
Romans 1:18-23:
"18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,g in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things."

I can not tell God when to calm the winds, the direction where to blow the winds, nor to stop and calm the winds in my favor! Psalm 107: 25

I can not tell God when to calm the winds, the direction where to blow the winds, nor to stop and calm the winds in my favor!
Psalm 107: 25
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psalm 115:3
"Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases."
Mark 4:39:
"And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
I cannot tell God, When? Where? How? Why? Nor, can I give God any direction to do my bidding for my ease and comfort of the Direction of how the wind Should blow!
I am outside of my house on a nice Saturday afternoon, the sun is out and the wind is blowing at various surges. While I was cutting my lawn, I did not mind the wind blowing on me, actually it was refreshing to have the wind blow on me while I was cutting the grass.
The second stage of my yard work, was to get out my blower and blow those annoying helicopter seeds. I gathered them in different piles, and went to go back to shovel them up and throw them in the garbage can. Well, what do you know happened next, surges of wind came by and blew the pile.
I got angry at the wind, and complained to God, why can't you make the wind blow in my favor?
Then I came to my senses, realizing who am I that I should tell God to command the wind in my favor. For God is in Heaven and I am on earth, He does and commands the wind according to His Sovereign will, after the good pleasure of His will.
Then my anger subsided, and I was taught patience to work around the wind that Blows any which way God determines and to rest in His Sovereignty in commanding the wind to blow in His favor according to His providence and plans.
The spiritual application is obvious, the winds of life will blow in surges, in any direction of the compass, and when it blows in your favor or not in your favor, brace yourself to turn to God's Sovereignty for His will of working all things according to His plans in your life. You cannot command the wind only God can command the wind to blow or cease from blowing, to accomplish His purpose that I may rest in the Sovereign power of Jesus Christ in my  life.

Your life is exposed, the writing is on the wall! MENE. MENE, TEKEL AND PARSIN!

Your life is exposed, the writing is on the wall!
MENE. MENE, TEKEL AND PARSIN!

Daniel 5:27
26This is the interpretation of the matter:

MENE-God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;

TEKEL-you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

28PERES-your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Mene-God in His Sovereignty has numbered your days! All of man's days are numbered by God! You cannot add numbers to your days by your good works, riches, efforts, external rituals, partying spirit, feasting and drunkenness! Your days are numbered, may they be numbered unto daily repentance and turning to God for Salvation and reception of His mercy and not His wrath abiding!

Tekel- life weighed in Tha balences and found wanting! Try to live your life and dress up the sin cursed imperfect nature that you inherited from Adam, and you will be found naked before Almighty God, insufficient, fallen short of God's glory, found wanting for all eternity, wanting for God's wrath to be eternally removed from abiding on you, helpless for deliverance from God's wrath Eternally abiding.
Peres- Your life divided separated from the life of God for all eternity in the lake of fire!

Mene-Your days are numbered, behold now is the day of Salvation! Be found numbered and added in God's Kingdom; may the Life of Jesus be numbered to infinite fulness for everlasting life, in you. Otherwise, apart from Jesus Christ abiding in your life, you will be found numbered with the wicked, numbered in the outer darkness where there will be wailing and knashing of the teeth and the smoke of your eternal torment will rise forever, and you will be found numbeted with the Devil and his angels, the demons and all whose names not found written in the Lambs book of life, found numbered in the lake of fire with all those numbered and subtracted from the Kingdom of God.

Tekel-Be found trusting in the sufficiency, supremacy and efficacy of Jesus' Shed Blood for forgiveness and cleansing of sin, in the new covenant of Grace by Adoption in His Blood for Eternal Life; never wanting or falling Short in the Grace of God for justification in Jesus' Resurrected life unto new Birth in Jesus' nature for Everlasting Life! But measured to fullness for all eternity in the sufficiency of Jesus' finished Redemptive, Vicarious Life, Shed Blood and Death on the cross and vicarious Resurrection!
Peres-Then God's Kingdom will be opened to you for entrance for Eternal Life, transferred from the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light in God the Father's Beloved Son, The LORD Jesus Christ, alone! No one other than Jesus Christ can provide your Entrance into God's Kingdom.

Daniel 5:23-31
"And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
24“Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. 25And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN. 26This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numberedg the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27TEKEL, you have been weighedh in the balances and found wanting; 28PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
29Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed. 31j And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old"

What is Truth? John 17:37-38

What is Truth?
John 17:37-38

37“Then You are a king?” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

Pilate arrived at the Truth through Scientific Experimentation and Starred the Knowing Truth in the face and still questioned the experimentation validity of the Truth and said to the empirical and Historical truth of Jesus, "What is truth?" You can study the Truth through Scientific analysis and still turn a blind eye to believe the scientific experimentation validity of the truth that you arrived at. Unless quickened by the Holy Spirit, you can stare the truth, be it, Historical, Empirical and Scientific in its final outcome and will not believe it!