By myself I can do nothing.

Revelation 4:10-11 says…the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."

If a statistician were to monitor across 1 day of our lives the amount of things we do 'by ourselves' as apposed to the things that we allow God to do through us, I wonder what the percentages would look like? Today's revelation is about life. When we 'do' by ourselves, are we acting outside of the will of God and therefore producing fruit that cannot last? Perhaps this is why in John 5:30, even Jesus said, 'by myself I can do nothing'. Of course we know he could have, as like anybody else, Jesus had the ability to choose, but I wondered whether he was meaning, 'if I choose to act outside of the will of the Father the fruit of my action will lead to death and not life'. Perhaps therefore; when Jesus said 'by myself I can do nothing', maybe he did really mean, 'by myself I can do nothing', not because he didn't have the ability to choose, but because as a God that declares, 'I am the resurrection and the life' (John 11:25), to then act outside of the Fathers will, and therefore produce fruit that would not be sustained, would be to contradict the character of who He is, ‘…the way and the truth and the life (John 14:6)

Created in the image of God must mean that we're purposed to produce life.
John 15:16 says. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. If what we do is born of the will of God, then we will bear fruit that lasts.

‘…for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being’ (Revelation 4:11)

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. (Deuteronomy 33:15-16)

By myself I can do nothing.