THE CHRONOS AND KAIROS MOMENTS

Edited for you only. Enjoy!!! *CHRONOS OR KAIROS?* Ë YAO AGBENYO Do you know that we live in a chronos world? Have you ever met a kairos moment? how long has it been since you had a kairos moment in this chronos world? Well, lets define some terms. The Greek language, the official language of the new testament of the holy bible, uses two diverse words for time; CHRONOS and KAIROS. CHRONOS TIME derives chronology (don’t ask why these big words? It is the pride of the language student. Chronos time is drudgery time, it is the ticking tock tickling clock measured time: each second is exactly like the one that went before it. Chronos time has no urgency. It is let the time go fast for me to go home: that is chronos time. A sketch of the chronos time Under what circumstances do we say a person is having a chronos time? #. Picture an insomnia patient, lying on a hospital bed: can not rest, can`t sleep, can`t dream. All he can is to hear the relentless tick tocking of the clock pounding in his ears, waiting for day break- he`s having a chronos time, empty, void, no action, no goal no aim, a wasted time. #. Picture a Ghanaian teacher who hates his job, and to add perjury to injury, his pay is less than the policeman who spends six months at the Winneba beach, shouting and having fun while he (the teacher) toiled under pressure in UEW for three years with another hectic one year in the hands of traitors who do not want anyone to reach where they are let alone talk of passing them. (I could not make even a third class,i could only manage a pass, why should I let you have a first class? Second lower gͻhaa mεkpͻgε`o, second lower mpo baa bͻ bo. εbε bͻ `u) ‘YET IN ALL THESE WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS’. Picture this teacher, waiting for the bell to sound so he could leave to his home. He is having a chronos time; void, empty, useless, a wasted time. Imagine an unconverted sinner, prayerless hence powerless, no conviction, listening to a powerless preacher talk of prosperity and power when all he needs is a message of salvation in the name of JESUS CHRIST that liberates a desperate soul, waiting to hear ‘in jesus` name we pray’ for him to depart. That is a chronos time. Empty, void, wasted time. Imagine Pegu, Yon Kon, Ataa Ayi or Tetteh Mpata in prison checking on the calendar every now and then, crying foul ‘when am I gonna leave this place’…void, useless, wasted time. Imagine yourself, at a boring long humourless lecture, bored to tears wanting the lecture to end for you to leave. A chronos time, void, empty, wasted time. Picture a lecturer at Maalam junction before February 2012, without a laptop in a hurry to conduct a quiz. When am I gonna leave here? That`s a chronos time. Void, empty, wasted time. ‘Chronos time is empty, meaningless. It is humdrum time. A void time that must be filled. It is time we put in, pass, endure or wish away’… says James Morre. When we talk of killing time, it is a chronos time. That is what the counselor and lecturer in UEW, Dr. Bedu-Addo calls ‘A WASTED TIME, WASTING TIME’. *‘BEWARE OF CHRONOS TIMES, FOR THEY ARE MORE OF ARMED ROBBERS THAN PROCRASTINATION’-* E. Agbenyo 2011 *THE KAIROS TIME* This is the embodiment of those rich, extra special, significant, dramatic moments that are packed with meaning, MOMENTS THAT STAND OUT WITH YOU AND STAY FOR A LIFE TIME. Kairos time is full time ,GOD`S TIME, (I mean Jehovah the ancient of days, the alpha and omega`s time). It’s a vital time, crucial and decisive time, a rich moment that breaks into the humdrum and changes your life for better, a power packed moment when all things seem to fall in place, a new perspective comes, a great paradigm shift occurs and God seems to be speaking to us so loud and clear. That is Kairos time, full time, God`s time. Theologians call it the MOMENT OF REVELATION. When you first meet the one you love and you seize the moment to say it, that is a kairos time. When a preacher meets an azonto dancer, that is kairos time (he knows that he either gets that soul for Christ NOW! Or NEVER)… that is a kairos moment. When a pastor meets nakedness and profanity on his or her pews, it`s a kairos moment. NOW or NEVER!!!!. When a friend meets a needy man, when your choir is prayerless, when you meet a proud man, when you meet a sad man, a desperate neglected and rejected man, you can sooth or you can seethe, that`s a kairos moment, NOW OR NEVER!!!! Kairos is a key word used in the new testament of the Holy Bible, when Jesus preached, he says ‘…the time is fulfilled, the kingdom of heaven is at hand’ The word used there is kairos and not chronos. MY LORD`S LIFE WAS FULL OF KAIROS MOMENTS. SPECIAL AND DRAMATIC TIME… He says; ‘I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day The night cometh when no man can work.’ CHRONOS TIME, LIKE GROWTH, IS QUANTITATIVE WHILE KAIROS IS QUALITATIVE. How about you, how long has it been since you had a kairos moment? Do you realize life while you live it or you allow every opportunity to slip by before you say had I known? Elections are coming very soon, are you in level 100? AGBENYO SAYS GO FOR A POSITION, DEVELOP YOURSELF WHILE ON CAMPUS. TAKE AN EXTRA COURSE. IMPROVE YOURSELF! IT IS NOW OR NEVER. DON`T LOOK AT YOUR AGE OR SIZE, SAY NOT THAT I AM BUT A LITTLE CHILD, GO FOR GOLD, I SAY YOU CAN. SHOOT FOR THE MOON, IF YOU MISS IT, YOU LAND AMONGST THE STARS, BUT IF YOU SHOOT FOR THE STARS AND YOU MISS, WHERE DO YOU LAND? Of course BACK TO ZERO POINT. THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WHAT CAN YOU LAY YOUR HANDS ON AND SAY THAT YESTERDAY I DID THIS? WILL TODAY TOO PASS YOU BY LIKE YESTERDAY? Listen to the French Romantic writers, they say CARPE DIEM- *seize the moment*, do something worthwhile. when you are not around, will anyone miss you? Will someone say If agbenyo were here, this would not have been this, or that would have been this? WHAT ARE YOU TO BE REMEMBERED FOR? Ë YAO AGBENYO CEO, YAFINC fb.me/eyaoagbenyo yaoagbenyo.blogspot.com *Copyright material, No duplicates please, (extracted from Yao Agbenyo`s GUIDING GADGETS FOR GOAL GETTERS. 2011)*