The Bible uses two different terms to refer to time: Kronos and Kairos. The first one refers to quantity, while the second one refers to quality. Kronos is used for the concept of human time (measures of time like day, hour, month, year) while Kairos refers to God’s perfect timing for blessing. My time (Kronos) is not mine, just like I am not my own. My time and consequently, my life, belong to God. Therefore, my minutes are very valuable, my hours are important. That is why I have to use that time in activities that please the Lord, giver of life. My life has to glorify the one who is love transcends it all. “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,” (Colossians 3:23 NKJV) When we are baptized we renounce sin and leave behind the creature that we were, becoming a new creature. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV). So having accepted and confessed Jesus Christ as our personal savior we enter into a new covenant. Jesus Christ fulfilled his part of the covenant by laying his life down in the cross for us. It is now our turn to our cross and walk daily in a lifestyle that emulates Jesus. “have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20 NKJV) That is why the Bible beseeches us to die for ourselves and live for Christ. That is why our time (Kronos) does not belong to us, our life is not ours but belongs to the one that loved us since we were in our mother’s womb. It is our responsibility as part of the covenant to not waste the resource of time that the Lord has given us. We have then to maximize our resources particularly time (Kronos) and the talents that were given to us as a blessing in God’s perfect time (Kairos) so the glory of God can be manifested through our lives.
We cannot allow worldly things which are not transcendent, to distract us from the spiritual things for which we need to have a priority of attitude and action. “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:15-17 NKJV) Don’t waste your Kronos! You still have time.
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