1 Peter 4:3
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

Peter’s list of vices is a repulsive reminder of our lives apart from Christ. The sins noted above were not occasional places we visited. We were “living in” them. These offenses characterized our lives and defined who we were. But now things are different. We spent enough time in the past living like pagans chasing after human desires. Now it’s time to follow hard after Christ.

The believer makes a break from their former sinful lifestyle. We have been transformed! The old life “was crucified with [Christ] in order that…we would no longer be enslaved to sin.” (Romans 6:6). The believer is a “new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

It is one thing to waste past years living in the land of sin. But it is another thing, a worse thing, to waste years as a believer going back to visit. It’s time to take an assessment of where you are right now in your journey with the Lord.

Father, as your children, please don’t let us waste a minute of our lives by living in the sins of yesterday. Help us to be honest about where we are on our journey with you and make the necessary changes. In Jesus’ name. Amen.