我们要继续思考，那导致我们重复地经历同样困难和问题的其中一个原因，就是我们从没有停下来检视自己，找出是什么导致我们如此行。诗人在神的同在中检视自己，并发现有三件事令他走错路。

首先，他看到自己容许自己的心管理自己的头脑：「因而，我心里发酸，肺腑被刺。我这样愚昧无知」（诗七十三21-22）。请留意当中的心理学──他将心放在头脑之前。我们很多麻烦都是来自内心的感受，而不是头脑应有的清晰思维。当我们的心控制了一切的时候，牠就会威胁我们相信不是事实的事情。牠令我们愚蠢。诗人以为他对不敬虔的人的感受是真实的，但这只是心理学家所说的「感情用事」，意思是说一个人相信他的感受就是事情的真相。当诗人的感受被事实纠正时，感受便消失了，其实并没有真正的困难存在。他的境况，可以说是「使自己陷入」的疯狂。

我也曾经容许自己被感受控制，什至到了一个相信小丘是大山的地步。（我相信你也试过这样）诗人生命中的真正困难不是外在发生的事情，而是在他内心世界的状况。换句话说，他烦恼的真正来源是他自己。

We continue focusing on the thought that one of the reasons why we go through the same difficulties and problems year after year is that we never stop to examine ourselves and find out what makes us act the way we do. The psalmist examined himself in the presence of God and discovered that three things had led him astray.

First, he saw that he had allowed his heart to rule his head: "When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant" (Psa. 73:21-22). Notice the psychology of this - he put the heart before the head. Many of our troubles are due to the fact that we are governed by the feelings that arise in our hearts rather than the clear thinking that should be going on in our heads. When the heart gets in control, it bludgeons us into believing things that are not true. It makes us stupid. The psalmist thought that his feelings about the ungodly were facts, but this was nothing more than what psychologists call "emotional reasoning" - believing that what you feel is the way things really are. The moment the psalmist's feelings were corrected by the facts, the feelings disappeared. There was no real problem at all. He had "worked himself up", as we say, into a self-induced frenzy.

I have done this myself (and so, I am sure, have you) when I have allowed my feelings to dominate me to such an extent that I have begun to believe that molehills were mountains. The real trouble in the psalmist's life was not what was going on in his outer world, but what was going on in his inner world. In other words, the real source of his trouble was himself.