Answer: The pace of our life in this materialistic age is getting faster and faster. Living in such a world, we all feel very stressed for gaining status in society and striving for our survival. Many people want to get rid of this painful and depressed life, but they failed and have to helplessly live in this world. Just as God’s word says, “People who have been bound by Satan for several thousand years have continued to live under its influence and have not thrown it off. They have continued to bitterly grope and struggle… they were tightly bound to family and secular entanglements as well as social interactions. They were unable to throw them off. In this kind of dog-eat-dog society, where can anyone find a meaningful life? What people recount is a life of suffering…” We can see from God’s word that all of our difficulties and sufferings are from Satan’s corruption and bondage. Some people constantly journey to and fro for their family and flesh; some are bound by their livelihoods, wealth, fame and gain, and social interactions. All are living in Satan’s domain without life goal, just remaining in the darkness and living their life unthinkingly…
The Lord Jesus said, “Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). Only if we come before God, can we have God’s care and protection and guidance, can we break free from those sufferings and difficulties, because we are created by God, and God is the source of man’s life and the foundation of man’s existence. Living in the world, we not only need the food and clothing, but more importantly we have to return to God and accept His salvation and the supply of His life. And also we need pursue the truth and know God because only truth can solve all of our problems. Only God can save us from all the entanglements, Satan’s bondage and afflictions, so that we can live freely and happily.
God says, “When man achieves the true life of man on earth, the entire forces of Satan will be bound, and man will live easily upon earth. Things will not be as complex as they are today: Human relationships, social relationships, complex familial relationships…, they are such bother, so painful! Man’s life here is so miserable! Once man has been conquered, his heart and mind will change: He will have a heart that reveres God and a heart that loves God. Once all those within the universe who seek to love God have been conquered, which is to say, once Satan has been defeated, and once Satan—all the forces of darkness—has been bound, then man’s life on earth will be untroubled, and he will be able to live freely upon earth.” God’s word tells us when we truly return to the Creator after we are conquered by God’s word, we can walk the right path of fearing God and shunning evil. At that time, there will be no more the disturbance and bondage of Satan’s forces and we will gain the complete freedom. In the very beginning the mankind’s ancestors Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, they didn’t suffer any fleshly entanglements and pains. But later the human beings started to suffer since they were corrupted by Satan. So, If we are completely saved by God, Satan’s forces will be bound and we will restore the life in the Garden of Eden originally. We all will live under God’s guidance and blessings, without any entanglements nor sufferings, but live on earth very freely. This is God’s promise to us and also our only expectation.