我們要繼續思考，那導致我們重復地經歷同樣困難和問題的其中一個原因，就是我們從沒有停下來檢視自己，找出是什麼導致我們如此行。詩人在神的同在中檢視自己，並發現有三件事令他走錯路。

首先，他看到自己容許自己的心管理自己的頭腦：「因而，我心裡發酸，肺腑被刺。我這樣愚昧無知」（詩七十三21-22）。請留意當中的心理學──他將心放在頭腦之前。我們很多麻煩都是來自內心的感受，而不是頭腦應有的清晰思維。當我們的心控制了一切的時候，牠就會威脅我們相信不是事實的事情。牠令我們愚蠢。詩人以為他對不敬虔的人的感受是真實的，但這隻是心理學家所說的「感情用事」，意思是說一個人相信他的感受就是事情的真相。當詩人的感受被事實糾正時，感受便消失了，其實並沒有真正的困難存在。他的境況，可以說是「使自己陷入」的瘋狂。

我也曾經容許自己被感受控制，什至到了一個相信小丘是大山的地步。（我相信你也試過這樣）詩人生命中的真正困難不是外在發生的事情，而是在他內心世界的狀況。換句話說，他煩惱的真正來源是他自己。

We continue focusing on the thought that one of the reasons why we go through the same difficulties and problems year after year is that we never stop to examine ourselves and find out what makes us act the way we do. The psalmist examined himself in the presence of God and discovered that three things had led him astray.

First, he saw that he had allowed his heart to rule his head: "When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant" (Psa. 73:21-22). Notice the psychology of this - he put the heart before the head. Many of our troubles are due to the fact that we are governed by the feelings that arise in our hearts rather than the clear thinking that should be going on in our heads. When the heart gets in control, it bludgeons us into believing things that are not true. It makes us stupid. The psalmist thought that his feelings about the ungodly were facts, but this was nothing more than what psychologists call "emotional reasoning" - believing that what you feel is the way things really are. The moment the psalmist's feelings were corrected by the facts, the feelings disappeared. There was no real problem at all. He had "worked himself up", as we say, into a self-induced frenzy.

I have done this myself (and so, I am sure, have you) when I have allowed my feelings to dominate me to such an extent that I have begun to believe that molehills were mountains. The real trouble in the psalmist's life was not what was going on in his outer world, but what was going on in his inner world. In other words, the real source of his trouble was himself.