Spiritual Food of Life

There is such a group of people in our lives. They all dip their heads concentrating on the phone in cars and on the road and even keep the phone in their hands when having meals or going to the restroom…. Such a group of people are called “phubbers.” Obviously, phone is a convenient means of communication, which appears to narrow the distance between people.
But most of the time, people are prone to smile at the cold mobile phone screens yet forget to greet people around them. As time passes, they become more and more indifferent to each other and their hearts become more and more distant. Unknowingly, phone has become “the third person” between lovers, family, and friends. People turn to the internet to get what they can’t get in their real life, and are more inclined to live in such a virtual world, as if only in this way could the emptiness in their hearts be filled.

At one time, I also lived my life in that way: spending every day playing phone, reading novels, hitting the internet cafe, and playing computer games. These things were addictive like drugs, making me unable to extricate myself from this virtual world. Every time I went out of the internet cafe, excitement and pleasure games brought to me were gone, leaving me inexplicable emptiness only. Though I didn’t want to live such a life, I couldn’t break free from it, stuck in such a vicious cycle.

Later, I accepted Almighty God’s work of the last days and read these words of God, “From when man first had social sciences, the mind of man was occupied by science and knowledge. Then science and knowledge became tools for the ruling of mankind, and there was no longer sufficient room for man to worship God, and no more favorable conditions for the worship of God. The position of God sunk ever lower in the heart of man. A world in man’s heart with no place for God is dark, empty without hope. And so arose many social scientists, historians, and politicians to express theories of social science, the theory of human evolution, and other theories that contravene the truth that God created man, to fill the heart and mind of man. And in this way, those who believe that God created everything become ever fewer, and those who believe in the theory of evolution become ever greater in number. More and more people treat records of the work of God and His words during the Old Testament age as myth. In their hearts, people become indifferent to the dignity and greatness of God, to the tenet that God exists and holds dominion over all things. The survival of mankind and the fate of countries and nations are no longer important to them. Man lives in a hollow world only concerned with eating, drinking, and the pursuit of pleasure. … Few people take it upon themselves to seek out where God does His work today, and to look for how He presides over and arranges the destination of man. And in this way, human civilization unconsciously becomes ever more incapable of meeting the wishes of man, and there are even many people who feel that, living in such a world, they are less happy than people who have gone. Even people of countries that used to be highly civilized air such grievances. … Man, after all, is man. The position and life of God cannot be replaced by any man. Mankind does not just require a fair society in which everyone is well-fed and is equal and free, but the salvation of God and His provision of life to them. Only in this way can the needs, yearning to explore, and spiritual emptiness of man be resolved.” (from The Word Appears in the Flesh) From Almighty God’s words, I came to understand that the emptiness in man’s heart is actually because man’s heart has no place for God and is taken captive by Satan. They are fooled by Satan and lose their direction, and believe no more that God is the Ruler of mankind. Therefore, they all prefer to living in such a virtual world to fill the void in their heart. Although man hates this fallen life from the bottom of their heart, they have no idea how to rid themselves of the empty feeling. Because man, after all, is man; only God can be the life of man, only God is the truth, and only accepting God’s salvation and God’s supply for man is the way to remove the feeling of emptiness.