The law is the form into which the character is poured. The form is soon removed, but the fixed character remains as an eternal monument to it. Sometimes patience and faith must bridge a great gulf between the two parts of this verse, but for the godly man the immutability of the basic principle is assured. The worst of storms will finally blow itself out and leave the man of God unharmed. One thing is needful.
Complication is unrest, but simplification is peace.
One thing in life must stand in majestic isolation like the mountain of the Lord, and all other things must be grouped in complete subjection at its base. We have ample instruction that we must be diligent and redeem the time, but in many problems waiting on the Lord is the best solution. We have many specific duties and responsibilities, but even in the discharge of these, waiting on the Lord plays no small part. Much of it rises from our failure to recognize our own insignificance in relation to God's great work. God is primarily testing and preparing us, not coming to us for help.