The Bible also helps us understand something important about ourselves. There is within us a strong, willful desire to establish and secure our life apart from God. This desire is rooted in the first act of disobedience against God committed by the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. Through Adam, sin entered into the world and everyone born since Adam is born with a sin nature (Rom.5:19). Isaiah 59:2 says, “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” By putting ourselves in the place of God we have sinned against him. This is the height of folly because God is the one who gives us each breath we take. God is the one who sustains our lives and has given us many good things. In Acts 17:24-27 we read, “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us."