When you live by grace, all the pressure is on God and not you. That’s why the people who live by the grace of God in Christ are the most thankful people in the world.
Colossians 2:6-7 AMP
Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in [union with] Him, [7] having been deeply rooted [in Him] and now being continually built up in Him and [becoming increasingly more] established by your faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing in it (your faith) with gratitude.
As Christians, you and I have been deeply rooted in union with Christ and are continually growing up toward maturity in Jesus as we become increasingly more affirmed and established in the lifestyle of walking in faith. Everything about the Christian life from beginning to end is by grace through faith because when you’re living by His faithfulness and counting on Him alone, our part is simply to believe. In John 6:28 – 29, the multitude asked Jesus, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He (The Father) has sent.” Our part is to restfully and joyfully count on Him; and His part is to be faithful, which of course, He always is.
Notice the last part of Colossians 2:7; “overflowing in it (our part – FAITH) with gratitude.” True childlike faith is always overflowing with an attitude of gratitude because of restful confidence that Jesus can be counted on, and because we are free from the dead works of our own performance, trying to make things happen and work things out (Free from maneuvering, and manipulating, and anxiety and fear. Free from pushing and being controlled by ambition or jealousy, envy). This is why Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, “in everything give thanks,” and in Ephesians 5:20, “ALWAYS giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
By grace, God reconciled us to Himself through Christ. By grace, we have been forgiven of all our transgressions. By grace, the person that we once were no longer exists, and we are now new creations in union with the risen Christ. By grace, we have been positioned (seated in the heavenly places with and in Christ) to the place of intimacy Jesus has with the Father and Holy Spirit, and by grace, we live every day experiencing the life that Jesus lives and the favor that He is worthy of. No wonder that we get to go to sleep every night with a hilarious anticipation of what God is going to be up to on our behalf the next day.