在继续往下研读以前让我们先停下来，再次以诗人在诗篇七十三篇所挣扎的问题来提醒自己。为甚么邪恶的人似乎富足，而义人的道路却有那么多困难？现在来看看诗人如何看那些不敬虔人的境况：「他们死的时候没有疼痛；他们的力气却也壮实。他们不像别人受苦，也不像别人遭灾。所以，骄傲如链子戴在他们的项上；强暴像衣裳遮住他们的身体」（诗七十三4-6）。

这是对那些没有把时间留给神、没有太多烦恼，日复一日生活着的人们的描述。它很可能是对世上所谓成功人士的描写中一幅最完美的图画。请留意，诗人在开始对不敬虔人的描述时提到他们的死：「他们死的时候没有疼痛。」社会上一个普遍存在的观念认为好生就会好死，但诗人以他自己的经验来观察认为情况刚好相反。

每当你听到基督徒死时很痛苦，或非基督徒平静地在睡梦中离世时，你不是也有同样的困惑吗？你是如何去处理那些感受的呢？忽略它们？否认它们？压抑它们？要记得，只有揭露了的问题才能够获得解决。我再说，你若不愿意面对问题，你又怎么能够去解决它呢？

Before moving on, we pause to remind ourselves once more of the question with which the psalmist struggles in Psalm 73: Why is it that the wicked seem to prosper while the path of the righteous is beset by so many difficulties? Look now at how the psalmist views the condition of the ungodly: "They suffer no violent pangs in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they smitten and plagued like other men. Therefore pride is about their neck as a chain, violence covers them as a garment - as a long, luxurious robe" (Psa. 73:4-6, Amplified Bible).

What a graphic description this is of the person who has no time for God, yet goes on from day to day with few troubles. It is probably the most perfect picture in all literature of the so-called successful man of the world. Note that the psalmist begins his description of the ungodly with a reference to the way they die: "They suffer no violent pangs in their death." Throughout time the notion has been universally present that a good life ends in a good death, but the psalmist makes the observation that in his experience the reverse is true.

Have you not struggled with these same feelings whenever you have heard of a Christian dying in great agony while a non-Christian passes away peacefully in his sleep? What do you do with those feelings? Ignore them? Deny them? Repress them? Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved. I say again, if you are not willing to face a problem, how can you go about getting it resolved?