Great faith is not how much faith one has, but it is what the faith is placed in.
Faith is the only thing that pleases God. Faith is not a meritorious act: it is not a work. Faith involves more than intellectual assent – one must trust the truth. Faith is a positive response of obedient trust to God’s Word.
Faith isn’t trusting that a chair will hold you because you can see the chair, Faith is trusting in what God has said.
Christ, himself, learned obedience through faith in the scriptures. He didn’t have to go to the cross and die. He did it so that the scriptures might be fulfilled. Trusting in the shed blood of Christ satisfies the Father, and because He is pleased, He imputes to us the perfect life of faith that Christ lived and died.