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From Moses we learned that God looks through our identity crisis, personal weakness and limitation. If he calls us out, it is not because of what we can do or who we are but more because of who He is.

We learned from David and Goliath that we need to take our focus on God. The Word of God is the source of our faith, as long as we are not fixated on our limitations. 

One of the most inspiring comeback story is Caleb. As he was pushing for God's promises in his old years. We learn that from Caleb there is a great lessons on following Christ, even if we are in the wilderness and don't get closer to the promise land yet.

When we are coming back to our previous normal life, we need to live our lives respecting Sabbath - honoring God and others. We need to be able to rest right and rest better as we comeback to our high pace life. 

We are geared toward winning, however it is easy to set our minds wander from the true race, the race of faith before God. We see evidence and principles that God is into the process and the endurance more than the worldly results.

We live in the age where there are many options, thus our decisions seems meaning less. At this time, live as a committed Christian is counter cultural and need a lot of self evaluation. We need to understand that life is not a rat race and if we seek any kind of fulfillment in life, it would come from accountability. 

As Solomon chose Godly wisdom, we can choose Godly wisdom when we are dealing with everyday life. However we also learned that wisdom alone might not enough as Solomon ended his life as a fool. 

To live a foolproof life, we need to know what fool means biblically, and learn humility. There are many traits of fools that we might easily identify with ourselves when we do not hear others, refuse to learn, and even further we adopt a defensive stance whenever we are being reminded or rebuked. 

Wisdom sustains us through difficult situations. Thus to lead a foolproof life, God might allow us to be pressureed, in a hardship and even among fools. However God does not leave us alone and He gives wisdom to us, so that we can come out winning.

Proverbs writes about hindrances of wisdom, among them simple, folly and scoffer. We even might see it these traits in ourselves from time to time. The Bible tells about the symptoms for us to evaluate and gives some great examples of how low we can fall if we do not have wisdom to navigate through our lives. 

We cannot avoid a bad season in our lives, but in those seasons God wants us to respond the right way. When we respond to our situation the way God intended to, the results might not go our way but we can still see God's agenda and will come to pass.

Our God understands our situation. Through Elijah, we learned that He is God that does not condemn nor neglect us even if we lose faith and on a valley. We can rest assured that we will always find rest, and purpose in Him. 

Ezekiel prophesized the breath of life into a valley of dry bones, and we see how our God is the God of resurrection. He is able to overcome the worst circumstances to brings his plan to completion. This is why our lives as believers would never be a boring life, but one teemed with assignments, purposes, and ultimately fulfillment. 

Our lives as Christian matter, regardless of whether we are feeling it or not. We learned from Ruth about selflessness, resilience, and faith. We can take hope that living our lives with God would make our lives filled with wonder and interest. 

There were times in our lives when we feel spiritually weary. We do not want to do anything related to God, all activities seem like a chore to us. At such times, it is important for us to understand that it is normal, and we need to respond differently to different causes of weariness. There is an invitation to rest and to rely on God full of love and always in control. 

These traits are proven to break relationships faster and harder than others. Knowing the truth and relying on Holy Spirit can help us resist it. 

Friendship is a God-given precious relationship. As sin enters it, it brings toxicity to all related parties and brings hurt to everyone. 

Insecurities and expectations are the next relationship killers. These traits easily crept in and usually seems like the wrong is on the other side of the relationship. We craved from others things that should've come from God as opposed to men. 

Our selfishness might seems tame, but the sin actually a seed that could derail even the strongest relationship. By being aware of others' interests, make time and budget to help others, and open ourselves to different perspectives and disagreement, we will be able to swim against our own sinful nature of selfishness. 

It is natural to have doubt as believers. Yet Jesus shows that even when we struggle with our unbeliefs, he is there to guide us through.