It is difficult to hurt a meek man. Arrows bounce harmlessly off the armor of his meekness. The proud is covered with exposed and tender susceptibilities, but the meek man knows none of these miseries. We unconsciously tend to absorb from those around us dangerous conceptions concerning the indiscriminate operation of God's mercy. Not just delighting in His Word, but delighting in the actual application of it to their lives.
Every effect has a cause.
All things operate by law, and the Scriptures teach us that the mercy of God is no exception. He is not a God of chance or caprice. If we delight greatly in a commandment, it ceases to be a commandment, and becomes a loving expression of communion and desire. Law, we are told, is not for the righteous, but for the disobedient. Love eventually absorbs all law, as it does all fear, by removing all cause and necessity for it.