And since a discouraged soul is easy prey for sin, they often fall due to the very fear of falling. To solve the first misconception it's only necessary to refer to the many scriptures stating that the Christian life will be full of warfare. Actually, rather than decreasing, temptations generally increase in strength tenfold after we've entered into the deeper Christian life. It's there that we're called upon to wrestle against spiritual enemies whose power and skill to tempt us is far superior to that of any enemies we've encountered before. But no amount or type of temptation should lead us to think we haven't really found a true relationship with Christ.
Strong temptations are often more a sign of great grace than of little grace.
But later, when they learned how to trust God better, He permitted their enemies to attack them. Even in their wilderness journey they met few enemies and fought few battles compared to those they encountered in the Promised Land. The Israelites couldn't have fought their enemies without entering the land where those enemies lived. The second misconception is not as easy to deal with. It seems hardly worthwhile to say that temptation is not sin, yet much distress comes from not understanding this fact.