{"id":385,"date":"2020-02-04T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2024-01-26T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:21:49","slug":"2-timothy-4-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/2-timothy-4-10\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Timothy 4:10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column385_a6be79-09 inner-column-1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>THE OUTWARD LIFE OF A STEWARD<\/strong><br><strong>Choosing a Lifestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\">\n<p>Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/662272022?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul tells of the loss of one of his group in <strong>2 Timothy 4:10<\/strong>. He says, <em>Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me<\/em> (NASB). It wasn\u2019t that Demas was unable to continue. It was that he was unwilling. He was more in love with the creation than he was with the Creator, and when faced with the choice between the two, his true love came out. God had given Demas an opportunity for eternal usefulness. But the love of the world drew him away to a lesser life and lesser end. Have you ever abandoned a Kingdom opportunity because other worldly activities held a higher priority? Being a good steward is much more about our heart than it is about our service. Demas for a while was busy doing God\u2019s work, but his heart was still in the world. <strong><em>Think about it<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/1-timothy-6-7-8\/\">Previous Stewardship Minute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-very-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/stewardship-resources\/#stewardshipminute\" style=\"color:#061578\"><strong>RETURN TO STEWARDSHIP MINUTES<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,68],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewardshiplibrary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}