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经文: 撒但阻挡了我们。（帖撒罗尼迦前书二：18）
自从良善与罪恶发生冲突开始，撒但就不断阻扰挠我们在灵里经历上帝。从四方八面，无论前线或后方，在破晓时分在夜半之时，撒旦都要阻挠我们，我们若在日间耕地，祂就企图破坏我们的犁；我们若建造城墙，它就投掷砖石；即使我们能在受苦中或在困难中事奉上帝，它也从各方阻挠我们。当我们初到耶稣基督前时，它就阻拦我们。一旦我们开始抑望十字架而活，我们与撒旦就有了强烈的冲突。现在我们得救了，它也企图阻挠我们的性格趋向完全。你可能沾沾自喜，说：“我能一直前进，无人能控告我的诚笃。”小心你的自夸，因为你的美德尚未受到试验。你若是一个坚定的信徒，你的信心将受到攻击；你若像摩西一般谦和，有一天你将被试探，从你的嘴唇说出愚蠢的话来。当我们恳切祈祷时，撒旦必会阻挠我们。它使我们代祷泄气，削弱我们的信心，为了使我们失去祝福。在阻碍基督徒勉力的事上，撒旦也从不放松。有属灵的复兴，就必有魔鬼作对的兴起。一旦以斯拉和尼希米开始工作，参巴拉和多比雅就开始骚扰，阻碍他们、（参阅尼二：19）。巴拉和多比雅就开始骚扰，阻碍他们、（参阅尼二；19）。撒旦若阻挠我们，不必惊慌，我们是站在主的一方，是为主工作的。靠着祂的力量，我们必打败仇敌，赢得胜利。
Evening, August 7
Scripture: “Satan hindered us.”(1 Thessalonians 2:18)
Since the first hour in which goodness came into conflict with evil, it has never ceased to be true in spiritual experience, that Satan hinders us. From all points of the compass, all along the line of battle, in the vanguard and in the rear, at the dawn of day and in the midnight hour, Satan hinders us. If we toil in the field, he seeks to break the ploughshare; if we build the wall, he labours to cast down the stones; if we would serve God in suffering or in conflict－everywhere Satan hinders us. He hinders us when we are first coming to Jesus Christ. Fierce conflicts we had with Satan when we first looked to the cross and lived. Now that we are saved, he endeavours to hinder the completeness of our personal character. You may be congratulating yourself, “I have hitherto walked consistently; no man can challenge my integrity.” Beware of boasting, for your virtue will yet be tried; Satan will direct his engines against that very virtue for which you are the most famous. If you have been hitherto a firm believer, your faith will ere long be attacked; if you have been meek as Moses, expect to be tempted to speak unadvisedly with your lips. The birds will peck at your ripest fruit, and the wild boar will dash his tusks at your choicest vines. Satan is sure to hinder us when we are earnest in prayer. He checks our importunity, and weakens our faith in order that, if possible, we may miss the blessing. Nor is Satan less vigilant in obstructing Christian effort. There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition. As soon as Ezra and Nehemiah begin to labour, Sanballat and Tobiah are stirred up to hinder them. What then? We are not alarmed because Satan hindereth us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord’s side, and are doing the Lord’s work, and in his strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary.