I was cleaning my iPad screen and applying a bit of pressure to help it be really shiny and clean. Holy Spirit said to me that I do not need to press so hard. It is the cloth that does the work, not the pressure.
Jesus is the cloth. We receive salvation through Him, not by anything else or the works that we do.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.