让我们继续来看诗人进入圣所后生命所发生的重大改变。重要的是，我们必须明白带来改变的不是进入圣所这个动作，虽然那很重要，但还有一些更重要的事情发生了。请再次听诗人怎么说：「等我进了神的圣所，思想他们的结局」（诗七十三17）。要留意这里使用了「思想」这两个字，其实英文圣经的翻译是「理解了」(understood)。来到神的跟前，诗人对事情有了清晰的理解。这是十分重要的一点，是要加以强调的；他在圣所不仅仅是找到良好的感觉，他得到了新的领悟，纠正了自己的思想，不是只暂时忘记自己的问题，而是找到彻底的解决办法。

很多基督徒对神的家或基督徒团契的看法，认为它是一个让我们能够暂时忘记个人烦恼的好地方， 因为他们能够从音乐和诗歌里面得到安慰。有些教会由于外观美丽，以至大家在离开时说：「每次来到教会的感觉都很好。」

当然，这没有甚么不妥，但真正的问题是：他们的思想有没有被改变？诗人并没有被圣殿的建筑设计所改变，而是当他的思想向着正确方向的时候，他才获得了改变：他「思想（理解）他们的结局。」要是信心的操练只是为了取得感情上的满足，而不能让我们对神有更深切的认识的话，那么我们就会变成一个失去平衡的基督徒了。

We continue to look at the dramatic change in the life of the psalmist when he entered into the sanctuary. It is important to realise that it was not merely the physical act of entering the sanctuary that brought about change. That was important, but something else happened that was even more important. Listen again to how he puts it: "[When] I entered the sanctuary...then I understood their final destiny" (Psa. 73:17). The word to note is "understood". In the presence of God the psalmist was given clear understanding. This is an extremely important point and one which cannot be emphasised too strongly: what he found in the sanctuary was not merely a nice feeling but a new understanding. He was put right in his thinking. He did not merely forget his problem for a little while - he found a solution.

The idea that many Christians have of the house of God or Christian fellowship is that it is a good place to go in order to forget one's troubles for a while. They are soothed by the music and the singing, or perhaps, in some churches, by the beauty of the architecture, and they come away saying, "What a lovely feeling I get whenever I go to church."

There is nothing wrong with that as far as it goes, of course, but the real issue is this: has anything happened to their minds? The psalmist was not changed by the architecture of the Temple, he was changed when his thinking was put right: "Then I understood their final destiny." If the practice of our faith does nothing more than excite our emotions and fails to give us a better understanding of God and His ways, then we will be lop-sided Christians.