(Thanks to The High Calling for publishing the following article, “Living a Kairos Life in a Chronos World.” Here is a snippet, but please read the rest of this article about work and God at TheHighCalling.org.)
Everything we do is marked by the steady march of time. Seconds lead to minutes to hours to days to weeks to years to decades to centuries.
The problem for all of us is that the clock is always running the wrong way, and we simply cannot stop its precipitous crawl toward the next tick. We lose moments to the past, out of our reach, never to be regained.
Where did all the years go?
The kids have grown and gone. We’re muddling along in a career, making a living, just existing out of habit more than anything.
Did I miss out on my chance to make a difference?
The Greek language has a couple of words that mean “time.” The first is most familiar—chronos . It means the chronology of days, governed by the carefully calculated earths’ sweep around the sun. God himself ordained this measurement of days on the fourth day of Creation, spinning the heavenly lights “for seasons, and for days and years.”
Boy, do I know about time. The wrinkles etched on my face; the wrinkles etched on my heart are the visual reminders of chronos.
But another word for time is also used in the New Testament—kairos . This speaks more to specific, God-ordained times throughout history, sometimes called the “right time” or “appointed season” (Titus 1:3).
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