在繼續往下研讀以前讓我們先停下來，再次以詩人在詩篇七十三篇所掙扎的問題來提醒自己。為甚麼邪惡的人似乎富足，而義人的道路卻有那麼多困難？現在來看看詩人如何看那些不敬虔人的境況：「他們死的時候沒有疼痛；他們的力氣卻也壯實。他們不像別人受苦，也不像別人遭災。所以，驕傲如鏈子戴在他們的項上；強暴像衣裳遮住他們的身體」（詩七十三4-6）。

這是對那些沒有把時間留給神、沒有太多煩惱，日復一日生活著的人們的描述。它很可能是對世上所謂成功人士的描寫中一幅最完美的圖畫。請留意，詩人在開始對不敬虔人的描述時提到他們的死：「他們死的時候沒有疼痛。」社會上一個普遍存在的觀念認為好生就會好死，但詩人以他自己的經驗來觀察認為情況剛好相反。

每當你聽到基督徒死時很痛苦，或非基督徒平靜地在睡夢中離世時，你不是也有同樣的困惑嗎？你是如何去處理那些感受的呢？忽略它們？否認它們？壓抑它們？要記得，只有揭露了的問題才能夠獲得解決。我再說，你若不願意面對問題，你又怎麼能夠去解決它呢？

Before moving on, we pause to remind ourselves once more of the question with which the psalmist struggles in Psalm 73: Why is it that the wicked seem to prosper while the path of the righteous is beset by so many difficulties? Look now at how the psalmist views the condition of the ungodly: "They suffer no violent pangs in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they smitten and plagued like other men. Therefore pride is about their neck as a chain, violence covers them as a garment - as a long, luxurious robe" (Psa. 73:4-6, Amplified Bible).

What a graphic description this is of the person who has no time for God, yet goes on from day to day with few troubles. It is probably the most perfect picture in all literature of the so-called successful man of the world. Note that the psalmist begins his description of the ungodly with a reference to the way they die: "They suffer no violent pangs in their death." Throughout time the notion has been universally present that a good life ends in a good death, but the psalmist makes the observation that in his experience the reverse is true.

Have you not struggled with these same feelings whenever you have heard of a Christian dying in great agony while a non-Christian passes away peacefully in his sleep? What do you do with those feelings? Ignore them? Deny them? Repress them? Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved. I say again, if you are not willing to face a problem, how can you go about getting it resolved?