Grace - Matthew 12, Psalm 114

ps114:1-2 "When Israel went for from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion."

Jacob always speaks of a prodigal son to me. When the prodigal son is in his own ways, he suffered all kinds of humiliation and miseries of the world. But when he turned back to God, look at what joy and favour the father's heart has toward His lost and found son: Jacob's life became full of praise(Judah) and God's grace.
Look at what God will do for the prodigal son: The sea looked and fled... the mountains skipped like rams...
nothing will stop the Father's love toward Jacob, the lost son.
v7"Tremble, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob..."
who dares to stand between a sinner and the grace of God?
Who are we, to judge someone that God loves?


Matt12:7 I desire compassion, and not a sacrifice

I looked the two words in dictionary:
Compassion - sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it

Sacrifice - an act of offering to a deity something precious; especially : the killing of a victim on an altar

To me, compassion means to save, help, it's like Moses seeing the distress of the Israelites and giving up his royal identity to become one of them and lead them out of misery, while sacrifice simply means to kill and to condemn.