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by Tom Kelley
According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, College Edition, a "moron" is a "person having an I. Q. of 50-69 and judged incapable of developing beyond a mental age of 8-12," or, "any stupid person or a person lacking in good judgment." I had not met too many people who possessed both of those attributes until the other day. The odd thing is, I didn't spend all that much time with the person. We met on an elevator headed to the same floor of the building. What happened from there is the stuff of legends.
My wife had a doctor's appointment last Thursday with her cardiologist, Dr. Hollingsworth, at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington. When we got to the building there were two young men walking into the building ahead of us. One was walking with a rather cocky gait while the other one walked like he was taking a science test on lack of coordination while ambulating. They stopped in front of the bank of elevators in the building and pressed the up button about the same time we did. The far right elevator door opened and we entered the elevator with them close behind us.
This is where it got wierd. The science experiment looked at the speaker on the elevator panel and wondered aloud how the phone worked. The person who was already on the elevator showed him the button to push to activate the phone. I judged this man to be in his early to mid twenties, so what happened next was totally unexpected. He pushed the call button for the phone at almost the same time that we reached our floor. The voice over the speaker asked if the car had stopped to which the young man responded, "No, I was just wonderin' about the phone."
My wife and I had stepped out of the elevator by that time in utter disbelief at what had just happened. "That's something an eight or ten year old would do," I thought to myself. My wife said out loud, "That guy's a moron." So I looked up the term and found out that my wife was absolutely correct according to the dictionary. He fit both definitions offered as he displayed the mental age of a ten year old and he was clearly lacking in good judgment. The odd thing is that the other man freely admitted, "He does this stuff all the time. It's embarrassing to be seen with him."
Guess what? If he comes to know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior he will still have heaven as his inheritance regardless of his absence of mental prowess. Salvation is not that tough an I. Q. test. It has only one question. Do you know the Lord as Savior? "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him." Romans 5:8,9 See? No test other than Jesus. By the way, there will be a lot of "intelligent people" in hell because they don't know Jesus.
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...He was the Minister of the Minorsville Christian Church located near Stamping Ground, KY.
...Becky and Tom have three children; John, single and in worship ministry in Nicholasville, Kentucky; Sean, married (Jennifer, elementary school teacher) with twins (Grace and Patrick, b.d. 10/31/04) and regional director of Papa John's Pizza in Central KY; Kara, married (Vince Taylor, prison guard) and working with Hospice East in Winchester, KY.
...Tom went to be with the Lord on November 13, 2009 after a lengthy battle with cancer. If you have been touched by Tom's writings please send an email to Tom's son at jkelley@catalystchristian.net
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