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.
Thus in the very process of abolishing the law, we establish it. 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.