***Guest post by my daughter, Courtney Sutton

There are so many things that people will do to feel loved. Pretty much all of us have hit that low point in our lives where we try to fill that void in our heart with people or things on the Internet. Maybe we’ve even tried eating disorders or hurting ourselves because we cannot seem to find any sense of self worth in our lives.

Every time God blesses me I am filled with such joy because I cannot thank God enough for what he has done for me. But then the devil comes and somehow I always lose sight of what is important and in a flash my joy is gone. I then start to see all of the people who are better than me or have cooler things than me or have it easier than me.

Today God broke me of that. I kept praying, “God break my heart for what breaks yours.” His response was to break my heart for having those thoughts. Immediately I realized that all this time I was feeling sorry for myself and letting the devil feed my mind with all of these thoughts to make me continue to feel lower and lower, but all that was doing was breaking God’s heart. How could I sit here and feel sorry for ME when God loved me so much that he sent his one and only son to die on the cross for me.

John 3:16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

That is more than enough for me. My prayer now is that we, as Christians, would automatically think about that when the devil comes to steal our joy and make us feel worthless.  He is always there to love all of us even despite what we have done. He loves us for us.

Song of Songs 8:6-7 “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.”