12月20日
标 题：反对
经 节：他们去后，有主的使者向约瑟梦中显现，说：“起来！带着小孩子同他母亲逃往埃及，住在那里，等我吩咐你：因为希律必寻找小孩子，要除灭他。”（马大福音二章13节）
当神清楚告诉我们要做什么，而我们顺服去做的时候，你会遇见反对势力。遭受不敬虔者的属灵攻击及羞辱，并不总是你偏离神旨意的标识；它们甚至指明你正走在神的旨意当中。马利亚的丈夫约瑟是个敬畏神的义人，然而，他的顺服迫使他离乡背井、亡命天涯。约瑟遇见苦难不是因为他的罪，乃是因为他的顺服。虽然约瑟和马利亚被迫搬迁到另一个国家，他们仍行在神的旨意中。
耶稣警告门徒，当他们遵行神旨意的时候，世人会迫害他们。祂提醒他们，他们不会单独面对苦难，因为耶稣也曾经面对世界的苦难，并且祂已经得到胜利（约翰福音十六：33）。
当你面对反对势力时，不要灰心丧胆。敌对的势力显示出你是顺服神的。不要让敌对的势力使你怀疑神的旨意。检查你的心。如果你已经做了神要你去行的事，祂会带你超越那不与神同行者所敌对的阻挠力量。当使徒遭遇敌对力量时，他们没有要求神除去敌人，而是求神赐给他们勇气面对敌对势力（使徒行传四：24—31）。神在你身上的旨意可能包括苦难，就像神的爱子一样（约翰福音十五：20），然而，祂爱你，祂不会让你所面对的苦难多于你所能处理的。
Opposition!
An
angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the
young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you
word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.” (Matthew 2:13)
Whenever
God clearly speaks to you and you obey His will, you can expect to face
opposition. Spiritual assaults and attacks by the ungodly are not always signs
that you are out of the will of God; they may even indicate that you are in the
very center of God’s will. Mary’s husband, Joseph, was a righteous man who feared
God, yet his obedience to God forced him to flee for his life to a foreign
country. Joseph’s hardship came, not because of his sin, but because of his
obedience. Although Joseph and Mary were forced to move to another country,
they remained in the center of God’s will.
Jesus
warned His disciples to expect persecution from the world as they obeyed the
Father. He reminded them that they would not face persecution alone, for Jesus,
too, had faced the hostility of the world and had been victorious (John 16:33).
Don’t
become discouraged when you face opposition. Opposition may indicate that you
are acting in obedience to God. Do not let opposition cause you to doubt God’s
will. Examine your heart. If you have done what you know He has asked you to
do, trust Him to see you through the antagonism that comes from those who are
not walking with Him. When they encountered persecution, the disciples did not
ask God to remove their opponents, but to give them boldness as they faced
opposition (Acts 4:24–31). God’s will for you may involve hardship, as it did
for His Son (John 15:20), but He loves you and will not allow you to face more
than you are able to handle.
