About a week ago I was reading a blog that caught my attention. She was talking about Kronos and Kairos time. I was fascinated, so I had to do some research. What I found gave me a new favorite word for the year, as well as a goal.
There are two different types of time. Kronos and Kairos. Kronos time is what we live in and are often pestered by. It is tick-tock time. Kronos is the hard, slow passing time that we simply endure through. It is the time in which we make appointments and face deadlines. It tends to be more of a nemesis or taskmaster than a friend. We schedule our lives by it.
Kairos is God’s time. It is the perfect time, the qualitative time. Kairos is the right time, opportune time or seasonable time. Kairos cannot be measured. Kairos is the right moment of opportunity which requires proactivity to achieve success. Kairos is significant and decisive. These moments transcend Kronos, stirring emotions and realities to cause decisive action. It is time that if it is neglected, it cannot be recovered. Kairos moments alter destiny.
Kairos time are the little moments I am given each day, if I will just slow down and realize that God is in my life, he knows who I am and loves me and it is that Kairos moment that he has placed as a reminder.
Each day I will recognize and cherish each Kairos moment, give it a name, and acknowlege where it came from.
In the midst of the ordinary time (kronos), extraordinary time (kairos) happens.
