Chronos and Kairos are two Greek words for our English word time.

Chronos (like a watch, timepiece, or chronograph) measures “sequential” time, like hours in a day. It’s also successive time, like a timeline.  One example is: The Civil War ended in 1865 and it’s been 150 years since the end of the war.

Kairos is also time, but a place on that timeline.  It can also be an event or opportunity.

So our lives are lived out a day at a time (chronos) but they are defined by the events or opportunities that intersect that line (kairos).

For those who put their trust in God, kairos is super important because that’s where He interrupts our chronos through events and opportunities. We have to be careful to not miss these special moments (and they’re not always blaring noises and strobe lights!) because it’s in these kairos moments that God reveals Himself!

Sometimes kairos is a great victory or success and sometimes it’s loss and pain – but either way, the spiritual adventures God wants for us aren’t usually sequential or successive, they’re divine interruptions where we are supernaturally engaged with the holy God of the universe!

Can anyone tell me the time?

Blessings!

Pastor Mark