But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’ So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Galatians 4 v4-7

It is a mystery, our rebellion. How often we wish to become gods, so we keep trying in our own strength. Echoes of this exist in culture, in government, in society, in our own hearts.

The sad thing is it is simply a perversion of a God implanted good desire – which found fulfilment through Jesus. We can inherit the Kingdom and the Royal status always planned for us, yet we would rather spend our lives building paper palaces.

And Hell is full of the burning embers of those palaces.