To make the matter of faith clearer still, I will give you a few illustrations. Though the Holy Spirit alone can make you see, it is my duty and my joy to furnish all the light I can and to pray the divine Lord to open blind eyes. Oh that you would pray the same prayer for yourself. The faith which saves has its analogies in the human frame. It is the eye which looks.
Faith is the hand which grasps.
When our hand takes hold of anything for itself, it does precisely what faith does when it appropriates Christ and the blessings of His redemption. Faith calls the legacies of the dying Jesus her own. Take that which grace has provided for you. He who may have a treasure simply by grasping it will be foolish indeed if he remains poor. Faith is the mouth which feeds upon Christ.