诗篇第七十三篇的诗人，与我们分享了神是良善这个信念后，接着便告诉我们是甚么令他远离信仰，以致他的心灵充满这种不幸的疑惑：「至于我，我的脚几乎失闪；我的脚险些滑跌。我见恶人和狂傲人享平安就心怀不平」（诗七十三2-3）。

这里开始了资深传道人司布真所说的「一场重大的心灵战役，一场属灵的马拉松，一场艰难但打得好的仗，在其中几乎被打败的最终却完全得胜。」诗人似乎因为他生命中的经验与圣经的教导有明显的矛盾而感到困扰。圣经教导说神善待那些清心的人。诗人说他妒忌那些狂傲的人，因为邪恶的人似乎比敬虔的人更富足，这令他十分难过。以前有人告诉他，如果你公义，神便会照顾你，令你富足。可是，诗人的事情却似乎并不太顺利，以致当他将自己的情况和那些似乎很富足但并不敬虔的人相比时，他几乎想放弃自己的信仰。

你会不会正处于类似的境况中？你的信心是否正受到你身边的事情所动摇，以致你甚至想要放弃？如果是，那么主今天对你说的话是：要坚持下去。虽然你此刻身处一条黑暗的隧道，但神会带领你经过，祂永不会失败，永远不会。

Having shared with us the conviction that God is good, the psalmist now proceeds to tell us what caused him to move away from that belief so that his soul became filled with such desolating doubt: "But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked" (Psa. 73:2-3).

Here begins what Spurgeon described as "a great soul battle, a spiritual marathon, a hard and well-fought fight in which the half-defeated became in the end wholly victorious". The psalmist seems bothered by the apparent contradiction between what he had been taught in the Scriptures - that God is good to those who are pure in heart - and his experience in life. He was envious, he says, of the arrogant and deeply upset over the fact that the wicked appeared to be more prosperous than the godly. He had been told that when you were righteous, then God would take care of you and prosper you. Obviously things had not been going too well for the psalmist and when he compared his situation with that of the ungodly who appeared to be so prosperous, he came close to giving up his faith.

Am I talking to someone who is in a similar situation at this moment? Is your faith so badly shaken by what you see around you that you are tempted to give up? Then this is the word of the Lord to you today: hold on. It is a dark tunnel you find yourself in at this moment, but God will bring you through. He never fails. Never.