Time

These weekly ‘thoughts’ are hopefully to help us on our weekly journey and are designed not to be too involved or complicated to understand. The reason I am saying this, is that this week I want to delve just a little bit into the Greek language that would have been used in the time of Jesus.

There are two words I want us to look at, and they are, “Chronos” and “Kairos”. Now these two words are used for our word, ‘time’. Like the word, ‘love’ in our language, the Greek has about nine different interpretations for our one word, and so it is with ‘time’.

Chronos is where we get the word, ‘chronograph’ or ‘chronological’ from and deals with time as in, ticking hours and minutes, the order of days on a calendar or looking at your watch to see the time. My watch, sad though I might be, just tells me it’s ten past ten or half past three. Just the time and nothing else, but I’m happy with that!

The other Greek word is Kairos which describes time, but not in the usual way. Kairos actually speaks of a decisive moment or a deep quality or texture of a special moment in time.

A Biblical example of this is that moment when Jesus was passing by and saw Zacchaeus in the sycamore tree and called him down. In that moment of time Zacchaeus was never the same person again, his life was completely changed. Read again the story in Luke 19:1-9, particularly where Zacchaeus said, “Lord, Lord! Here and now I give half my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will pay back four times the amount”. That describes a huge life-changing moment for Zacchaeus.

The most decisive, divine moment in time, which affects us all, is when Jesus said in Mark 1:15, “The time has come …….. “. He was announcing the commencement of His ministry, the Good News of saving grace and redemption for all who would believe and trust in Him. That moment in time was cataclysmic and a ‘once and for all’ start of the story of the Cross, Resurrection and Eternal Life for us all. At the end of time as we know it, there is eternity. So when Jesus said, “The time has come” it was that moment of change for each one of us.

I found that just looking at these two words, Chronos and Kairos, has filled me with hope and a sense of awe.

Vic, 09/08/2026

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