Saving is all His idea and all His work. All we do is trust Him enough to let Him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play a major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving.

Works do not save us. They are merely an outpouring of thankfulness and gratitude to God bathed in humility for the forgiveness of sins.

Our good works should testify that we are image bearers of Jesus, reflecting His love to a lost world devoid of hope.
However, they should never glorify ourselves but always point
others to God, who is the founder and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).