What lesson can be drawn from the passage describing akiba drumer?

No matter what we should not lose focus and faith of our original goals and beliefs, Akiba lost faith in his own convictions that God would save them and the whole incident was just a trial of their faith. However, he became weak in faith and subsequently had to rely on the Nazis for what will happen to him instead of holding on till the end and saying the Kaddish that God will intervene as he once believed