Kairos Versus Chronos

Time is a fundamental of life. By fundamental I mean everything living and non living are subjected to it. Rocks erode, tectonic plates crack, trees grow, men age…etc.

Time is characterised majorly in two; Kairos and Chronos. Chronos is the normal sequential time. It’s that which states every 60 seconds is a minute and every 60 minutes is an hour. It goes until every 4 weeks make a month and every 12 months a year!

Kairos on the other hand has no limits. As I already explained in the previously blog. (If you haven’t read it, please read through before proceeding so that you understand where we are coming from… https://biggiesbigblogs.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/light-defines-time/)

Kairos is endless (eternal), springing from the beginning of time to the end of time. For it, it can’t be sometime like chronos. It is anytime.

Kairos is not even time. It’s now! Once God says now, then whatever he has purposed becomes Kairos when translated into Chronos. For example, while Saul was still King, Samuel anointed David king. God was operating in a different timeline.

He was operating by Kairos. According to him, David was now king even if in Chronos (earthly time) Saul still reigned. Years passed before Chronos could reconcile with what God had said, but it finally became!

Now, Kairos can mean God’s time, but remember God doesn’t exist within time. In the previous blog we saw how Joshua suspended Chronos and brought the reality of God’s normal eternal experience called ‘No Time.’

Let’s see how Kairos is dissimilar from Chronos.

1. Kairos is Unconventional

That means, it’s out of the ordinary. It gets you off guard. Just imagine how Abraham felt after the Angel of the Lord has told him and Sarah he’d have a son.

Imagine David while in the field; his mind so far away…and suddenly he’s being anointed King. That’s all unorthodox. Having a child at such an old age, and being anointed king at such a young age!

2. Kairos Redeems

To redeem is to save or rescue. When the time of God’s purpose sets in, He usually has saving nations of people in mind. Look at when Kairos befell Joseph.

Did any of his brothers know that he was going to save all of them and their descendants from famine? No! Sometimes, Kairos also saves you personally. I think it was sometime in 2018.

At home I was fixing a bulb into a bulb holder dangling from the ceiling. The switch, meanwhile was on. After fixing the bulb I came down the table. After 5 seconds a wave of electric bolts shot out across the ceiling from the part where the bulb came into contact with the bulb.

I don’t know if it was a short circuit. But I could have died. I was beyond frightened. The rest of the power in our house went off. No one had witnessed this. So I kept quiet. The power returned after about 5 seconds but there was smoking and a smell of something burning in our dining room.

Either hours later or a day, God told me,

“I froze time. That shock was supposed to happen exactly at the time when you had fixed the bulb. But I made the shock wait until you were far away from danger.”

Now I don’t care whether you believe it or not. I know what God said. What God did here was, he had kicked in his reality of no time. Meaning, the ability for the shock to proceed by Chronos had been terminated temporarily.

I still shed tears every time that day comes to mind. I was saved! That’s what Kairos does.

3. Kairos Requires Faith

From Abraham being told he’d have a son, to Mary’s being informed that she’d have a virgin birth, faith was required. This meant, there was no evidence in the physical of how what had been prophesied would come true but God’s word was all the evidence there was!

When God’s time to announce a certain purpose in your life comes, get ready to walk by faith and not by sight. When He says so and so will be your spouse, yet nothing connects, move by faith. When he says He’ll give you that global company and you feel unqualified, believe it.

Once you don’t believe the word in its Kairos, you’re in danger of missing it in its Chronos.

4. Kairos Is Personal

When God says it to you, it’s not mandatory to tell it to everyone. Why? Many people around you will be in a different phase of life. They’d even be wanting the same thing from God and when it’s delivered to you instead, they gain hate. Why would God give it to him and not me?

Also, it could be this; the others around you don’t have the faith required to believe that word. The end will be them doubting it and influencing you with vain talks that will leave you doubting God. Tell only your Peter James & John perchance.

5. Kairos Requires Patience

Abraham had to wait 25 years from the Kairos moment of Isaac’s promise. When you feel the same delay. Don’t give up on God yet. He’s not a man that He should lie!

6. Kairos Is Ushered In By God

Every time heaven revealed a starting of a purpose, say the announcing of a birth of a great person, God had to deliver the word himself. That’s how important it is.

For Abraham it was an angel. Still for David, God used Samuel. Mary received Angel Gabriel. Watch out for those times. You’ll know it’s Kairos when you perceive it’s God’s voice either to you directly, or through a messenger.

7. Kairos Is Either Preceded or Proceeded with Signs

I can’t quite remember when the right time was, but you can see that from the Kairos to the Chronos of Jesus’ birth, many scriptures were written about him. Many prophets foretold about his coming.

Watch out when more than one person tells you the exact same message. It might seem quite coincidental, but take heed, the Kairos of something from God to you, for you must have passed, and He needs you to move!

8. Kairos Evokes Fear

When God’s appointed time arrives, usually fright follows. Usually, the announcement of whatever He wants you to do is frightening. Tell me what your reaction would be if I told you to build an ark and put in every sort of animal in the world. Boats never existed yet. Rain had never come from the sky. Water came from the ground. It was crazy to tell men rain would fall from the sky. That’s why fear is probable.

Obviously you’d fear but you’d rather fear than doubt what God says. Doubting on your side disregards the ability of the end of His word from coming to life in your life. His word, however, still retains the power to do whatever He said.

If He said I have put 1million pounds in your account, you’d fear but go check it out or doubt it and die ignorant and broke! Why God expects you to fear justifies why to many people in the Bible, he introduced himself by ‘Do not be afraid…’

9. Kairos Defines/Redeems Chronos

David asked God to teach him (us) how to number (his) our days so that we’d apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psalm 90:12)

Wisdom for what? Wisdom to bring His will to pass. If God says He’s going to give you children, if you’re in your right mind, something in your chronological life changes by default.

Your friends change. You search out fathers who already have children and learn from them how to father. You work harder to get into a bigger house. You work harder to store up an inheritance beyond what they’ll need for their school fees all their lives.

See how all your life changes because of a Kairos moment? You now even treat yourself with much respect. Not allowing any wastage of time, for you’ll have to go pick the kids from school and spend time with them (if you believed the word in its Kairos & ran with it through until its Chronos)

10. Kairos Is Inevitable

When God’s time for a purpose finally arrives, it can be delayed but it can not be run from. Look at Jonah. He dilly-dallied when he heard God’s voice. He tried to delay the purpose but it still caught up with him.

Jesus asked God to take away the cup of suffering as his crucifixion drew nigh. But it all had to proceed as planned. Why? For both Jonah & Jesus, millions of lives were at stake and as we saw earlier, Kairos Redeems.

Let this stick in your mind. When you are In God, you can’t run away from what Kairos has brought. If it’s a promotion, get ready. If it’s a baby, get ready. If it’s a demotion, get ready. If it’s to leave your country, get ready. For God is the author of your life. And by the time He asks you to do something, know He already wrote it that way, and you have to play your part, if you are going to fulfil your destiny!

11. Kairos Is Qualitative

Chronos is quantitative. It’s described by just numbers. Number of hours, days, weeks, etc. Kairos on the other hand is qualitative. It’s described by quality.

By quality; this is what it means; Every time someone talks about Kairos , it’s such an important time to them. It’s so dear. It turned their lives around. This for example can be the day God called someone, or the day they got born again. Wow. It’s so precious. Men are saved from their sin nature and they are put on the track of purpose!

Kairos causes a level of excellence. This is still under quality. Men will be excellent in all they do, knowing that Chronos is fleeting and evey second counts thus what Kairos brought ought to be implemented!

12. Kairos Differentiates You

Your life is different because your purpose is different from those around you. If God has called you unto nations, you won’t waste time like the others. You’ll be spending more time in the secret place, communing with Him as He deposits in your spirit treasures those nations will need.

At some point you’ll wonder ‘how come others have time to waste and do nothing?’ It’s because they have not been called for the same purpose as you have. This all starts when God you encounter, and He discloses a certain purpose in the appointed time!