Opposition is the birthmark of progress.  You’ve heard it said many times, “If you do not want to be criticized, laughed at, or scorned: Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing and have nothing.”  But if you want to have something, it will require doing something, saying something, and becoming something.  When the will is intentional, the warfare becomes intense.  What I mean to say is this: if you get ready to do something for God, the enemy will start working diligently to do something to you.

Every major Bible personality faced his or her fair share of opposition.  Some of …