Actually I think you may be the one that needs to learn what grace is..it is not like gas that we have to put in the tank.. we can not earn grace .. by definition grace is getting what we do not deserve deserve
>>Grace is freely given, but we have to cooperate with it.
Salvation is synergistic. Merit and legal terms have no place in my theology, so I wait patiently on the Lord. Whether God looks favorably on my works or not depends on my heart.
Look up the word synergos in the Greek.
I’m not OWED anything. It’s not the good works that I am worried about.
Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time. 2 Peter 1:10
While the text is referring to growing in holiness and works and security against falling, that verse from the DRB is a quite a paraphrase for a translation that is usually close to the KJV:
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things [add to faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, Godliness, brotherly kindness, charity, and abound therein], ye shall never fall: