Dec 10 - Luke 2:6

                                                                And while they were there,

the time came for her to be delivered.

Luke 2:6

In Greek, there are two words for time.

The first is chronos. Chronos is watches and calendars and days and weeks. It is a time line. And yes, according to the calendar, about nine months had passed and it was chronos for Mary to be delivered.

The second word for time is kairos. Kairos is “God’s time” or “the right time.” Nine months on the calendar might have said that it was chronos for Mary to have her baby, but it was bigger than that. The whole history of the universe was pointed to this holy moment, This was the kairos. This was God’s perfect timing.

Traditionally even the secular world marks history around this event. It’s labeled, of course, as “before Christ” and “after” (BC and AD, anno domini, “the year of our Lord”).

But it’s still much bigger than that. The manger is the dividing point between darkness (BC) and light (AD) … between despair (BC) and hope (AD) … between bondage to sin (BC) and freedom in grace (AD). Jesus brought healing into a world of sickness, blessing into a world of guilt, resurrection into a world of death, and joy into a world of grief.

This was the moment in all of history.

What’s the moment in your history?

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who wondered whether

Luke 2:6 read kairos or chronos

Which do you think? (answer below …)

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Actually the answer is … neither !!! ( … and kind of both.)

The Greek is literally translated as “it came to pass” (more chronos)

and “the days were fulfilled” (thus, ultimately much more kairos).

Leave it to God to work in both our time and his time!!!