現在我們來到詩篇七十三篇的轉折點──詩人朝解決問題的方向走出第一步。我們不能忘記，這首詩的目的是讓我們看見詩人如何解決他的困難，以致當我們遭遇同樣困難的時候，懂得運用同樣的解決辦法。

這就是他的第一步：「我若說，我要這樣講，這就是以奸詐待你的眾子。我思索怎能明白這事，眼看實係為難」（詩七十三15-16）。我們從這些話，可以看到是甚麼挪去了他那些疑惑和絕望的感受。他想到，如果他從心底發出沮喪的說話，那就等於把絆腳石放在別人的路徑上。他自己心想：「如果我這樣做，便是對神的孩子世世代代不忠實。所以我不會讓自己的疑惑令別人失望，我會保持沉默。」

有些人可能感到很奇怪，為何詩人以「保持沉默」這麼低動力的第一步去邁向復元。事實上，有些人認為他不需要這樣，不應該容許自己落入那個光景中。同樣地，今天教會當有人承認自己有「不屬靈」的感受時，我肯定你聽過一些喜歡論斷的人會說：「你真不應該有這種感受！」但問題是他們確實有那種感受，現實生活要求我們從我們真實所在的地方開始，而不是從我們所期盼的地方開始。我個人不介意一個人所站立的地方有多低，關鍵是他必須堅穩的站立而不是在向下傾倒或滑跌。

Now we come to the turning point of the seventy-third psalm - the point where the psalmist takes the first step toward the resolution of his problem. We must not forget that the purpose of this psalm is to show us how the writer solved his problem, so that when we get into the same kind of difficulty we can apply the same solutions.

Here, then, is his first step: "If I had said, 'I will speak thus,' I would have betrayed your children. When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me" (Psa. 73:15-16). We see in these words what it was that arrested his feelings of doubt and despair - the thought that if he were to speak out of his discouraged heart he would put a stumblingblock in someone else's path. "If I did that," he thinks to himself, "I would be untrue to the generation of God's children. So, rather than discourage others with my doubts, I will not say anything at all."

Some might regard it as strange that the first step the psalmist took on the road to recovery should be one with such a low motivation. Indeed, there are those who have said it was unworthy of him and that he should not have allowed himself to get into that condition. Similarly, when people in the Church today confess to having "unspiritual" feelings, I am sure you have heard judgmental advice-givers address them with words like: "You ought not to feel like that!" But the point is that they do feel like that, and reality demands that we begin right where they are and not where we would like them to be. Personally, I do not care how low a person's stand might be as long as he or she is standing and not slipping.