We cannot fully comprehend the scope and inhumanity of this today. Probably the closest comparison we have today in the United States is the employer employee relationship. It was an apprehension on their part that life could only be equal to the demands of Jesus by faith, by that activity of the human soul that takes hold upon the invisible. Our Lord said, You do not need more faith, but faith of a different kind and nature. It is not a question of quantity, but one of quality.
Faith is that which has in it a principle of life.
We may define a living faith by saying three things about it. Living faith is first conviction concerning the fact of God. It is secondly the experience of relationship with God. Thirdly and consequently, living faith is absolute submission to the will of God. We cannot exercise faith in God doing anything that we do not know to be the will of God.