Chronos VS Kairos

Chronos, has to do with calendars, seasons, dates, clocks, chronometers. It is the time as defined, quantified and grasped by men, as concept of time. It is also the linear time, a time that goes in a straight line, and does not turn back.


Kairos, is to do with the fullness of time, when circumstances are right for something to take place.


It has always been men's dream to be able to time the Kairos moment correctly, drawing a parallel, the top and bottom of the stock market, most can detect a trend (trending up or down), which has to do with Chronos, but not the Kairos. Gadwell called it tipping point, mathematicians call it maxima/minima. Maybe deep inside us, there is this desire to see the best timing, which is God's timing. we chase after what is seemingly Kairos, as defined in the things of the world.


Maybe Kairos is so elusive that men has given up chasing for it. I like the way its being defined, "the fullness of time", when the time is right. Men also tried ways to find out that, if you know from the formula that Kairos will happen when the "fullness" is reached, you will seek after what makes the fullness and tries to detect it. Similarly in the markets, people try to see overbought/oversold signals, the drying up of liquidity that signifies fullness/emptiness, etc.


Its all so very interesting, because i realize that everything is linked. Men has always have a deepest desire in their hearts to chase after the things that matters to God. However, men are impatient, short-termed, selfish; which makes them substitute something of God to something created by men, to simulate God's things. Markets, fortune telling etc.


Maybe that's why also people could not live without a conclusion, a closing, an ending? Because all those things signifies the fullness, the Kairos? Well, i don't know, but this is all too interesting because its all linked. Elusive, but you can't escape it.