The life which I now live in the flesh,
I live by the faith of the Son of God.
Galatians 2:20
"WHEN the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, He 
first of all said, "Live"; and this He did first,
---because life is one of the absolutely essential things in spiritual
matters,
---and until it be bestowed we are incapable of partaking in the
things of the kingdom.
*Now the life which grace confers upon the saints is none other than the life of Christ, which, like the sap from the stem, runs into us, the branches, and establishes a living connection between our souls and Jesus.
Faith is
the grace which perceives this union, having proceeded from it as its
firstfruit. It is the neck which joins the body of the Church to its
all-glorious Head." Charles Spurgeon