现在我们来到诗篇七十三篇的转折点──诗人朝解决问题的方向走出第一步。我们不能忘记，这首诗的目的是让我们看见诗人如何解决他的困难，以致当我们遭遇同样困难的时候，懂得运用同样的解决办法。

这就是他的第一步：「我若说，我要这样讲，这就是以奸诈待你的众子。我思索怎能明白这事，眼看实系为难」（诗七十三15-16）。我们从这些话，可以看到是甚么挪去了他那些疑惑和绝望的感受。他想到，如果他从心底发出沮丧的说话，那就等于把绊脚石放在别人的路径上。他自己心想：「如果我这样做，便是对神的孩子世世代代不忠实。所以我不会让自己的疑惑令别人失望，我会保持沉默。」

有些人可能感到很奇怪，为何诗人以「保持沉默」这么低动力的第一步去迈向复元。事实上，有些人认为他不需要这样，不应该容许自己落入那个光景中。同样地，今天教会当有人承认自己有「不属灵」的感受时，我肯定你听过一些喜欢论断的人会说：「你真不应该有这种感受！」但问题是他们确实有那种感受，现实生活要求我们从我们真实所在的地方开始，而不是从我们所期盼的地方开始。我个人不介意一个人所站立的地方有多低，关键是他必须坚稳的站立而不是在向下倾倒或滑跌。

Now we come to the turning point of the seventy-third psalm - the point where the psalmist takes the first step toward the resolution of his problem. We must not forget that the purpose of this psalm is to show us how the writer solved his problem, so that when we get into the same kind of difficulty we can apply the same solutions.

Here, then, is his first step: "If I had said, 'I will speak thus,' I would have betrayed your children. When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me" (Psa. 73:15-16). We see in these words what it was that arrested his feelings of doubt and despair - the thought that if he were to speak out of his discouraged heart he would put a stumblingblock in someone else's path. "If I did that," he thinks to himself, "I would be untrue to the generation of God's children. So, rather than discourage others with my doubts, I will not say anything at all."

Some might regard it as strange that the first step the psalmist took on the road to recovery should be one with such a low motivation. Indeed, there are those who have said it was unworthy of him and that he should not have allowed himself to get into that condition. Similarly, when people in the Church today confess to having "unspiritual" feelings, I am sure you have heard judgmental advice-givers address them with words like: "You ought not to feel like that!" But the point is that they do feel like that, and reality demands that we begin right where they are and not where we would like them to be. Personally, I do not care how low a person's stand might be as long as he or she is standing and not slipping.