How to Handle Life’s Problems - Handout, is used as a study guide for the lesson. God develops the Fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances where you’re tempted to express the opposite quality. God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.