If He bids you step out on the water, He knows that He can bring you safely back to the boat. When an Alpine guide takes you over a ragged piece of ice, he considers whether, in the event of your utter collapse, he is not able to carry you through by the strength of his iron grasp and sinewy frame. What iron is to the blood, that the thought of God's faithfulness is to faith. Faith bears fruit Faith bears Fruit. It cannot help it, because it links the soul with Christ, so that the energy of His life pours into it through the artery of faith, and, as it comes in, so it must make a way for itself out.
Fruit is, so to speak, forced from the believing soul.
It cannot help it, because the spirit of spring has been poured into its heart. It cannot help it, because the life forces are ever pouring up from the root. It cannot help it, because its heart has imbibed her nature. So, the believer, united to Christ, receives grace upon grace from His heart, and from the abundance of His in dwelling his life speaks. It is not difficult to obtain faith like this.