If there are ways for us to experience our "best life now," there are also ways for us to experience our worst life now. Honestly, we don't even need to be told how to, because all of us sinners are masters in living that way.
But for the sake of those who want to know how they ended up living the worst life, it might help to read about it, and hopefully ask God for the grace to overcome it. Would you want to know how to live your worst life now? Here are some ways how.
1. Willingly commit sin – and cherish it
Simply put, there's nothing more powerful and more helpful in living our worst lives now than to commit sin. Do what is wrong. Indulge yourself in useless, meaningless and worthless habits. Build wrong, sinful relationships. Be unrepentant. Yes, my friends, we've all done this before we met Christ and submitted to His Lordship.
But let me ask you: Are you in Christ? If you are, do you still willingly commit sin? If you said yes to that, then my friend, you are setting yourself up for the worst life ever: a life of powerless Christianity (see 2 Timothy 3:1-5), a life that has the form of Christianity but devoid of its power to change lives (2 Timothy 3:5). That, my friend, is the worst life ever.
2. Be unforgiving
Refusing to forgive those who offended you is also one of the most effective ways to live your worst life now — a life that's ruined by bitterness, anger, and a painful consciousness of your shameful past.
The Bible says if we refuse to forgive others, God won't forgive us (see Matthew 6:14-15). If we don't receive His forgiveness, we end up striving to earn His approval, which in all honesty, we can never ever earn on our own efforts (see Ephesians 2:8-9). We should forgive.
If we refuse to forgive others, we end up getting stuck in the past, in the same period when we were offended. We fail to see better days because we bask in the pain of yesterday. Do you want that?
3. Live a double life
It's easy to go to church and be there in discipleship group, even if we're just faking it. What's hard is to actually read our Bible, believe it, and obey it without anybody knowing and applauding us. Isn't it true that it's easier to fake religiosity by using Jesus' name than to denying ourselves, taking up our crosses, and following Jesus Himself?
Friends, living a double life is really hard. Think about it. It's tiring to keep an act: raising hands in worship during Sundays in church, then lifting that bottle of alcohol after a long day's work. Or telling our wives that we love them, only to lust after women at work, in the Internet, or in the mall. Or sharing the gospel to a friend, and cursing a debtor to hell for not paying on time.
Yes, it's hard. Why don't we just live the life we're supposed to live: a life of holiness in Christ (see 1 Peter 1:16)?
Why I wrote this
Friends, I hope that by this article we get to realise the wrong things that we are doing, and then by the grace of God, repent and be saved from the sins we treasure. My desire is that all of us would learn to live our best lives now – a life of total submission and obedience to Christ, who gave His own life for us so that we might live as sons and daughters of God.
