Question: I have lived for several decades, but I feel it’s very meaningless, apart from emptiness are pains. Then could I just live my rest life like this?

Answer: Hello! Thank you for your question. It speaks many people’s heart voice out. People with some life experience all have such sigh and confusion. During the several decades of our life, we all depend on our own hands to create fortune and happiness. However, no matter whether we are successful and rise in the world or do nothing all days and lives very mediocrely, what we get finally is just emptiness and pain. Just as the Bible says, “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit” (Ecclesiastes 1:14). Can we only live in this way all our life? How can we break free of such empty and painful life?

God says, “A world in man’s heart with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.” “When one has no God, when one cannot see Him, when one cannot clearly recognize God’s sovereignty, every day is meaningless, worthless, miserable. Wherever one is, whatever one’s job is, one’s means of living and the pursuit of one’s goals bring one nothing but endless heartbreak and irrelievable suffering, such that one cannot bear to look back.

God’s word points out the root of man living so emptily and painfully. After tempted and corrupted by Satan, people all stray from God. Without the guidance of God, what we pursue are all material comforts and carnal pleasures. We don’t know what the real value and meaning of life are but follow the worldly evil trends and indulge ourselves in sinful pleasures. Being fooled, tempted and trampled underfoot by Satan, how could we not suffer from the emptiness and pain in the heart? If we want to get rid of the emptiness and pain of life, we should come before God to accept His salvation and give up our own desires, pursuit and the living ways of changing our fates by ourselves. By obeying God’s sovereignty and arrangement and walking the right way of fearing God and worshipping God with our feet planted firmly on the ground, we will finally get the blessings of God and have the peace in our hearts. This is the greatest happiness of our life. Only such life is valuable and meaningful.

Just as God says, “The greatness and power of the life of God cannot be fathomed by any creature. It is thus now, was thus then, and will be thus in time to come. The second secret I shall impart is this: The source of life comes from God, for all creation, whatever the difference in form or structure. Whatever kind of living being you are, you cannot move counter to the path of life that God has set. In any case, all I wish is for man to understand that without the care, keeping, and provision of God, man cannot receive all that he was meant to receive, no matter how great the effort or struggle. Without the supply of life from God, man loses the sense of value in living and loses the sense of purpose in life.” “…when people recognize God’s sovereignty over human fate, the smart ones choose to know it and accept it, to bid farewell to the painful days when they tried to build a good life with their own two hands, instead of continuing to struggle against fate and pursue their so-called life goals in their own manner. … Only when one accepts the Creator’s sovereignty, submits to His orchestrations and arrangements, and seeks true human life, will one gradually break free from all heartbreak and suffering, shake off all the emptiness of life.