A Biblical Blindside story

So I will admit I stayed up past midnight last night watching a movie, "The BLind Side". The movie was great and I was thankful that Tara talked me into staying up all night to watch it. I trust most people by now have seen it and it has a lot of great points to it. I think one of the main points is how we can compare it to God. Every person on the face of the earth has been through some type of rough time or rough relationship at some point in their life. Big Mike was just that, a boy with a really rough childhood and an even rougher teen years who overcame. He was able to overcome because some of the things that were missing in his life were given to him by a loving family. He was given his first room, his first bed, new clothes and the like all by this new family. More importantly a huge hole in his life was filled because he was not getting any kind of loving support from anyone. Think about your life, no matter how good of a life you had, you had a hole in your heart that was just the right size for Jesus to come and fill it up for you. Jepthah had the same thing, he was born to a prostitute and had several brothers who would not let him in because he was not from the same mother, he was the result of his father's mistakes and viewed as such, "a mistake." Jepthah however gained strength and went on to live a good and prosperous life. Not because someone took him in or because someone provided for his physical needs, but because he found the Lord.
"Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah." - Judges 11:29
THere you have it, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Him and every hole, every void and every shortcoming life had ever dealt him suddenly was swept away. I loved the movie the Blindside, I did, but to tell you the truth I think we need to spend more time filling spiritual voids than physical and emotional ones. We can feed people in need, we can clothe people in need, we can even build relationships with those in need, but until we give them what they really need (a personal relationship with their Saviour) we are failing them completely.
It's great to feed and clothe the needy, it's far greater to share with someone God's plan for their eternal life.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!