我们今天的讨论已经来到──诗人在进入神的圣所后，开始攀登梯子的最高一级。在这里，诗人回想自己的经历时只能颂赞神说：「除你以外，在天上我有谁呢？除你以外，在地上我也没有所爱慕的」（诗七十三25）。

当我们在神的同在下处理问题，无可避免的结果是我们必定会敬拜神。我经常看到一些人在得到有效的心理辅导后双膝跪下来敬拜神。事实上，这是基督教辅导的一个最大的目的，就是让人们知道他们的属灵资源，帮助他们获得释放并且亲近神。诗人发觉天地间没有任何人可以为他做神所做的事情。他明白当他逃避全能者的时候就根本没有办法明白生命；正如奥赛罗（Othello）说：「混沌又来了。」（奥赛罗是沙士比亚作品里的人物）

你的生命有没有来到同样的境地？你能否说你已经看透生命，并得出一个结论──除了神以外，一切都不能令你满足？如果是这样的话，那你就是身处快乐的境况中；正如门徒停下来思考谁能取代耶稣时说：「主啊，你有永生之道，我们还归从谁呢？」他们是那么清楚的明白。真盼望你也明白，世上并没有什么可以取代那让我们如此满足的主耶稣基督。

We come now to what is without question the topmost rung of the ladder which the psalmist began to ascend when he entered the sanctuary of God. Here, in view of his experience, he can do nothing but give himself to the adoration of God. This is what he says: "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you" (Psa. 73:25).

The inevitable consequence of working through our problems in the presence of God is that we worship Him. Countless times I have seen people fall upon their knees at the end of a profitable counselling session and worship God. In fact, this is one of the great purposes of Christian counselling - to enlighten people about their spiritual resources and help free them to draw closer to God. The psalmist has found that there is no one in earth or heaven who can do for him what God has done. He has come to realise that when he plays truant with the Almighty there is simply no way in which he can make sense of life; that, as Othello put it: "Chaos is come again."

Have you come to this same place in your own life? Can you say that you have seen through everything in this life and have come to the conclusion that nothing can satisfy you but God? Then you are in the happy position of the disciples who, pausing to consider how they could replace Jesus, said "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." They saw, as hopefully you have seen, that there is no satisfying substitute for Jesus.