While reading Colossians, Paul’s letter to them while imprisoned in Rome.  Paul closes his letter with a greeting to them from several of Paul’s friends and fellow works.  (Read Colossians 4:10-14 where he gives their names and a little statement of who they are.)
Vs. 14 closes with,
“Luke the beloved physicians and Demas greet you.”
 
But wait!  Demas!  Upon checking, I found him mentioned in other places as follows:
In a closing greeting to Philemon Vs. 23-24,
“Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke my fellow laborers”
 
But what I remember of Demas is 2 Timothy 4:10 (Paul’s second imprisonment.)
Vs 10,
“for Demas has forsaken (deserted) me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica…”
 
Today, as then, one could be enticed by the world!  Maybe you have had that happen.  We are being bombarded relentlessly in this age through every possible means.  
 
Scripture tells us,
“Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it springs the issues of life.”  Proverbs 4:23
 
Peter tells in 2 Peter 1:5-8,
“…giving all diligence, add to you faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,  
  to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
 
Then Vs. 10 tells us,
“Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.”
 
We have warnings concerning the world:
“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God?  Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”  James 4:4
 
1 John 2:15-17 tells us,
“Do not love the world or the things in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of he Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
 
“…through these (great and precious promises) you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”  2 Peter 1:4
 
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1
 
2 John 7 tells us,
“For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh this is a deceiver and an antichrist.”
 
So let us do as the author of Hebrews exhorts us to do:
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 
looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…”  Hebrews 12:1-2
 
I close with the Doxology of Jude, Vs. 24-25
“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
To the only wise God our Savior,
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,
Both now and forever.
Amen.”
 
Thank you Father for the indwelling Holy Spirit who leads and guides as we live, sojourners, here on earth.  With grateful hearts we say thank you Lord God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Amen
 
So we sing:
“Turn (keep) your eyes upon Jesus.
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.”