"Time Doesn't Change Sin"

March 11, 2026 | By Chuck

  Have you heard the phrase “time heals all wounds”?  I suppose it is an encouraging thought to believe if just a little more time passes you will be healed from a painful experience.  I’m sure some buy into this cliché.  Not me, not for a second.  No amount of time heals anything.  As time passes, we tend to adjust or get used to the situation, but time heals nothing. 

            Time doesn’t change sin either.  What I mean is sin doesn’t become less sinful or less offensive to God as time passes.  If it was a sin when you were a child, it’s still a sin today.  That may seem obvious to you, but I’m not sure that it is to everyone.  It seems over the years as time has passed, we have come to view some sins differently.  It’s as if the passage of time has made those sins, well, not so sinful anymore. 

            I assure you those sins are still sinful and still dishonor God.  So, why do we look at some sins today with more tolerance?  I think some sins are far more accepted by society today.  Media, television, movies, and even social media have brought these sins into our homes and caused many to become desensitized to the wrongdoing.  We see these sins so often.  Our favorite entertainers, community members and even our family members and friends practice these sins.  That alone can cause us to look with tolerance, if not all out acceptance of sin. 

            Time does not heal wounds and time does not change sin.  A sin in the 80’s is a sin today.  Have we become comfortable and complacent with some sins?  We have and that didn’t happen overnight.  What the passage of time does is allow us to be more influenced by sin and desensitized by it.  “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear” (Isa. 59:1-2).