Mercy and not sacrifice

"Learn what I mean by "I desire mercy and not sacrifice"" Jesus said.

This verse has been ringing in my head. I seems like a fairly easy verse but yet Jesus replied this same verse a couple of times in His 3 and a half years of ministry and emphasized by the disciples in the gospels.

Today, i woke up praying and reading the bible that God is our deliverer and He will stretch out His hand to us. Ending off, i was reminded of "I desire mercy and not sacrifice" again.

Giving mercy seems to be quite an easy task, when no one is 'stepping on your toes'.

Showing mercy becomes tough with the very same person just keeps 'stepping on your toes' over and over again and yet still insist they are right.

When i was just a student, doing well is an individual thing. You cannot blame others for your results and you cannot do better by putting others down. But in the world, people goes up only when others comes down. Its amazing to see how people put others down just so that they can go up. Whether is it just in terms of position or ranks, sometimes people do it even for emotional elevation, to make themselves feel that they are better than others.

This week i was watching Dr. OZ and he was talking about bullies. Tera was on the show and she said this "most of the time the person who bullies often has an issue themselves and by putting others down, they are trying to draw confident to themselves" and "most of the time, the bullies are hurting more than you are, on the inside"

It is human to sometimes want to complain. I am human.
But to show mercy is not just an 'act' of kindness to the person, but it is also not to speak evil of the person. Sometimes it may not even be speaking 'evil', sometimes it is just the TRUTH. But yet, you still choose not to speak it of that person. That in itself is showing mercy.

Is it really that easy? i guess it is not and it will be a learning process. If it would have been easy, Jesus would not need to ask us to LEARN, what He meant by that.