過去幾天的研讀讓我們清楚地發現，詩人的觀點已經去到一個獲得改變的階段。他看到神在掌管人類，所以不敬虔的人並不值得羨慕。現在我們看到，他不單糾正了他對不敬虔的人和對神的想法，他也糾正了對自己的想法：「 因而，我心裡發酸，肺腑被刺。我這樣愚昧無知，在你面前如畜類一般」（詩七十三21-22）。

他現在對自己的評價是多麼不同，他本來明顯為自己感到難過：「我實在徒然潔淨了我的心，徒然洗手表明無辜」（13節）。在聖所外面，他充滿自憐，然而在聖所裡面，他對自己有了完全不同的看法。這一刻詩人誠實地面對自己，這是相當不容易的事。

我們大部份人都不介意處理自己的困難，但是每當情況稍微緩解的時候，我們便想停留在那裡，不願意繼續去面對那些當初令我們做出錯誤結論的問題。這就是為甚麼我們會一再重蹈覆轍，只因為我們沒有清楚地察看我們的內心。有一位教師自稱有二十五年的教學經驗，但主任教師卻形容她說：「她其實只有一年經驗，不過是重複了二十五次而已。」她沒錯工作了很久，可是她所學到的卻不多。

From what we have seen over the past few days, it is clear that the psalmist has come to the place where his views have changed. He sees that God is ruling over human affairs and that the ungodly are not in such an enviable situation after all. We come now to see that he was not only put right in his thinking about the ungodly and about God, but he was also put right about himself: "When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant: I was a brute beast before you" (Psa. 73:21-22).

What a different view he has of himself now compared to previously, when he so evidently felt very sorry for himself: "Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure; in vain have I washed my hands in innocence" (v.13). Outside the sanctuary, he felt full of self-pity; inside the sanctuary, he had an entirely different view of himself. This is a moment when the psalmist honestly faces himself -something that is very difficult to do.

Most of us don't mind working our way through our problems, but the moment we get relief, we want to stop right there. We do not go on to face up to what caused us to come to the wrong conclusions in the first place. This is why we keep going through the same problems over and over again - we fail to take an inside look. A schoolteacher claimed to have twenty-five years of experience, but her head teacher said of her: "She has just one year of experience twenty-five times." She worked long but learned little.