詩篇第七十三篇的詩人，與我們分享了神是良善這個信念後，接著便告訴我們是甚麼令他遠離信仰，以致他的心靈充滿這種不幸的疑惑：「至於我，我的腳幾乎失閃；我的腳險些滑跌。我見惡人和狂傲人享平安就心懷不平」（詩七十三2-3）。

這裡開始了資深傳道人司布真所說的「一場重大的心靈戰役，一場屬靈的馬拉松，一場艱難但打得好的仗，在其中幾乎被打敗的最終卻完全得勝。」詩人似乎因為他生命中的經驗與聖經的教導有明顯的矛盾而感到困擾。聖經教導說神善待那些清心的人。詩人說他妒忌那些狂傲的人，因為邪惡的人似乎比敬虔的人更富足，這令他十分難過。以前有人告訴他，如果你公義，神便會照顧你，令你富足。可是，詩人的事情卻似乎並不太順利，以致當他將自己的情況和那些似乎很富足但並不敬虔的人相比時，他幾乎想放棄自己的信仰。

你會不會正處於類似的境況中？你的信心是否正受到你身邊的事情所動搖，以致你甚至想要放棄？如果是，那麼主今天對你說的話是：要堅持下去。雖然你此刻身處一條黑暗的隧道，但神會帶領你經過，祂永不會失敗，永遠不會。

Having shared with us the conviction that God is good, the psalmist now proceeds to tell us what caused him to move away from that belief so that his soul became filled with such desolating doubt: "But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked" (Psa. 73:2-3).

Here begins what Spurgeon described as "a great soul battle, a spiritual marathon, a hard and well-fought fight in which the half-defeated became in the end wholly victorious". The psalmist seems bothered by the apparent contradiction between what he had been taught in the Scriptures - that God is good to those who are pure in heart - and his experience in life. He was envious, he says, of the arrogant and deeply upset over the fact that the wicked appeared to be more prosperous than the godly. He had been told that when you were righteous, then God would take care of you and prosper you. Obviously things had not been going too well for the psalmist and when he compared his situation with that of the ungodly who appeared to be so prosperous, he came close to giving up his faith.

Am I talking to someone who is in a similar situation at this moment? Is your faith so badly shaken by what you see around you that you are tempted to give up? Then this is the word of the Lord to you today: hold on. It is a dark tunnel you find yourself in at this moment, but God will bring you through. He never fails. Never.