D&C 93:20 For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive grace for grace.
So, it takes time to receive a fulness. Jesus, in earlier verses received a fulness, over time. If I were to tie 'keep the commandments' to 'therefore, ..., you shall receive grace for grace', the Lord seems to be saying that it will ultimately be by His grace that we will be able to progress. So, how might this work? What is receiving grace for grace? Perhaps we receive His grace (the strengthening power of the atonement) to overcome a weakness that we have had our whole life. God graces us with the ability to make that weakness a strength unto us. We deny not that this change occurred only through God's power. We have just received grace (or a grace). Because we received the first grace, we are then given another grace to overcome the next area of weakness. Is this receiving grace for grace? This is how we are able to keep each of Christ's commandments. They are impossible to keep otherwise.
So, ask God what commandment He wants (commands) you to work on and work on it relying solely on His merits (grace). Once you experience success you will be given another commandment through the Holy Ghost. Your progression has now started!
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