过去这几天，我们看到诗人是怎样处于一个阻止自己滑倒，和开始往上攀爬的夹缝中。我们说这是一个相当关键的时刻，因为它会令我们喜欢接受容易的答案。诗人的困惑没有在他阻止自己跌倒时结束，他的思想仍然混乱，导致他继续处于痛苦中。

最后他那因为「不敬虔人得到兴盛」的怒气是如何获得平复的呢？他不是紧抓问题表面的答案，而是借着进入了神的圣所，在那里开始从神的角度去审视整个局面。请听他怎么说：「我思索怎能明白这事，眼看实系为难；等我进了神的圣所，思想他们的结局」（诗七十三16-17）。「圣所」这个词在这里指神在物质上的房子，有些翻译是「等我进了神的奥秘」，这个译法不正确，因为在诗篇七十四篇和七十六篇，让我们看到那是指敬拜神的一个实在的地方。

我在猜想诗人有没有好像我们一样，在充满疑惑和无所适从的时候远离神的圣所？有一个奇怪的现象是当我们心里充满疑惑和误解的时候，我们最不想做的事情，就是在神的殿里与其他信徒见面，可是实际上那却是我们最应该做的事情。

Over the past few days we have seen how the psalmist was caught in the hiatus between the moment when he stopped himself from sliding and the moment when he started to climb again. This, we said, is a very critical time - critical because it makes us inclined to accept easy answers. The perplexity did not end when the psalmist stopped himself from slipping. His thoughts still went around in circles and he continued to have great anguish of heart and mind.

How, then, were his thoughts concerning the prosperity of the ungodly resolved? Not by grabbing at superficial answers, but by going into the sanctuary of God, where he could begin to see the whole situation from God's point of view. Listen to how he puts it: "When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me till 1 entered the sanctuary of God, then I understood their final destiny" (Psa. 73:16-17). The word "sanctuary" here literally means the physical house of God. Some translations use the phrase, "till I entered the secret of God", but that is incorrect. Read Psalm 74 and read Psalm 76 and you will find that they both refer to the material building where God was worshipped.

Had the psalmist, I wonder, like so many of us when we are filled with doubt and uncertainty, stayed away from the sanctuary of God? How strange that the last thing we want to do when our hearts are filled with doubts and misunderstandings is meet with our fellow believers in the house of God. Yet that is the very first thing we ought to do.