God has given each Believer a pre-ordained mission to accomplish in the brief moments we’re allotted on earth. When we fix our temporal eyes on Jesus, we’re given new sight to see our worldly existence in the light of God’s grand scheme of redemption. Scriptures about God’s precisely timed plans. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.” ( Romans 13:11-12) The night is nearly over the day is almost here. “And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.” ( Psalm 39:5) You have made my days a mere handbreadth the span of my years is as nothing before you. ![]() “Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days let me know how fleeting my life is. “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” ( Galatians 5:25) This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.” ( 2 Timothy 1:9) “He has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. Live as children of light.” ( Ephesians 5:8) “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. God’s timing becomes our timing as we submit our will to Him. His indwelling Spirit enables us to walk in the realm of faith instead of the realm of sight. While our earthly bodies remain in this world, which is no longer our home, we’re called to live as ambassadors for Christ. ![]() Upon salvation, a believer is reborn and spiritually rescued from this temporary realm of darkness and translated into Christ’s everlasting Kingdom of light. Scriptures about choosing to walk in kairos instead of living for chronos. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.”- C.S. “His life does not consist of moments one following another.Ten-thirty- and every other moment from the beginning of the world-is always Present for Him. “The eternity of God’s existence is nothing else but his immediate, perfect, and invariable possession of the whole of his unlimited life, together and at once.”- Jonathon Edwards By His eternal essence, God is the only being completely unaffected by the passage of time-He gains and loses nothing through the span history.”- Peter Sammons, Table Talk Magazine, June 2021 The eternality of God is simply the infinitude of God applied to time. He is without beginning or end, and He has no temporal succession-that is, He doesn’t move through time as we do. He remains untouched by the winds of time. “In respect to time, there is no change in God whatsoever-no growth, no diminishment, not a trace of alteration. ( Ecclesiastes 3:11) So, by divine appointment, He grants us glimpses of kairos-as His sovereign plans intersect humanity’s chronos timeline. Yet God has placed the longing for eternity in our hearts. Our limited human comprehension prohibits us from grasping the full scope of eternity. ![]() We can only understand this form of time through spiritual insight. However, God is not confined by chronos because He’s eternal. God created chronos for humankind the moment He spoke the earth into existence. With chronos, there’s always a before and always an after. The ancient Greeks had a better handle on the concept they used two words to describe time- chronos and kairos, and we see both used succinctly in scripture.Ĭhronos is the linear form of time that refers to the temporal moments and days we plot on a grid to determine chronological order. This four-letter English word falls short of telling the whole story about our existence. A Word about Timeīefore we dive into what scripture and Christian saints say about God’s timing, let’s consider the meaning of the word time. May these quotes about God’s timing, from the Bible and history, restore our awe of time and space-and revive our hope in the one who holds eternity in His hand. We can also find fresh insight from the discernment of Godly men and women who have walked before us. Going straight to God’s Word will always breathe life into the dry bones of our understanding. When that happens, we can do two things to change our perspective. Certain Christian terms are used so often that the vibrancy of their truth becomes dull with familiarity.
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