Opposition is likely a sign that we're spiritually healthy

It wasn't until college and until I really engaged in a deeper relationship with God and served Him more intentionally did I learn and experience first-hand spiritual warfare. There are often so many discouragements, open criticism, or just situational challenges that come up right after a spiritual breakthrough or right after lots of good fruit. It makes sense that when the Kingdom of God is being built and when the Lord is being served and His name proclaimed, the enemy shutters and tries to steal, kill and destroy. What was really encouraging through today's devotional, is that these "discouragements", spiritual attacks, evidences of spiritual warfare, persecutions, etc are actually indicators that we're doing the right thing. "If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you."  Truly, it's because the Spirit of God dwells in us and that's why there is and will be opposition. And even though the immediate situation may be a challenge, it's actually a mark that we're doing the right thing and rather than being discouraged, it should encourage us to fight that much harder for the Lord. There's nothing to fear for the victory has been won and God is with us.