Of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. Even though they are inseparable, grace must come before truth. We cannot experience truth about God's holiness and righteousness unless we first understand grace. That is the narrow way. It is a way so narrow that if we try to add one thing to grace, it will profit us nothing, and God will not accept it.
Grace gives faith to the weakest person.
It gives hope to the backslider. It gives encouragement to the person who has failed over and over again, and when a fallen person turns to the Lord, the first thing they must learn is not to change themselves, but to release the grace that they have received. The most difficult thing to understand is that grace is pure grace. When we receive unconditionally the grace of God that motivates His love and reveals the characteristics of mercy, then we place God in His rightful position of headship in relationship to our walk on earth. Our submission to a throne of mercy does away with hypocrisy and legalism.