昨天我们看到，诗人虽然有疑惑和失败，但神仍然接纳他。不但如此，他也明白神掌控的手不断地与他一起：「你搀着我的右手」（诗七十三23）。究竟是什么阻止他陷进险境？是神那保护的手。神亲自令他进入圣所，从而使他回转。

在明白了这个关键以后，诗人想到将来。将来会怎样？他的结论是，将来会同样有保障，因为：「你要以你的训言引导我，以后必接我到荣耀里」（24节）。诗人在默想将来时所感到的保障，你也可以感受到吗？他等于说：「您现在搀着我的右手，保护我，掌控我，恢复我，释放我，我知道您会继续这样做，直到我在荣耀中与您相见。」

神怎样引导我们？透过环境，透过理性，透过基督徒的团契，但主要是透过圣经。神的圣言在我们查考牠时揭示现实，驱走幻觉，引导我们安全地经过地上的网罗和困难，直到我们最终得到荣耀。诗人看到不敬虔人的结局，这样有助改变他的看法。他现在看到敬虔人的结局了，因此他的视野更加清晰。而敬虔人的结局是什么呢？那是荣耀！

We saw yesterday how the psalmist sensed that despite his doubts and failures he was still accepted by God. But there's more - he realises also that God's restraining hand has been constantly with him: "You hold me by my right hand" (Psa. 73:23). What was it, after all, that prevented him going over the brink? It was the protecting hand of God. God Himself had put it in his mind to go into the sanctuary and had thereby turned him round.

Realising that, he thinks of the future. What is the future going to be like? His conclusion is that the future is going to be just as secure, for: "You guide me with your counsel, and afterwards you will take me into glory" (v.24). Can you sense the psalmist's security as he contemplates the future? He is saying, in effect: "You are doing this now, holding me by my right hand, protecting me, restraining me, restoring me and delivering me, and I know You will keep on doing this right up to the time when I meet with you in glory."

How does God guide us? Through circumstances, through reason, through the fellowship of Christians, but mainly through the Scriptures. The Word of God, when we consult it, unfolds reality, dispels illusion and guides us safely through the snares and problems of this earthly way until we eventually arrive in glory. The psalmist had seen the end of the ungodly and it had helped to change his perspective. Now he sees the end of the godly and thus his perspective becomes even more clear. And what is the end of the godly? It is glory!