High Noon

Twenty-five, what an awesome age. However at twenty-five, the first quarter of your life has already surpassed. It was a time when what others thoughts of you mattered, a time when you may have even been a people-pleaser. They were the years where mistakes, if time permits, can be repaired and recovered.
Twenty six through forty, still an awesome time of youth and discovery. It is still the age where mistakes can be recovered or boredom can be revived with reinvention or new creations. This is the second quarter. The second quarter extends to age fifty, if life allows you to live to the ripe age of one hundred. However, based on the actuarial tables found on the Social Security Administration website, if you are a man (living in the US), your probability is .48% of making it to 100.  If you are a woman, 1.66%. Then there's the third quarter, fifty-one to seventy-five. The third quarter is a time to really focus! If God's grace allows you to play in the third quarter, all childish things and decisions should truly be left behind. It is a time to continue to seriously teach others and to have a character in place that when someone mentions your name it is good. It is a time of high noon, a time to clean the idled cobwebs of our minds.  We should no longer be people-pleasers. Everything forward should be in an attempt to please God. This could statistically be the last quarter. It is not suggested that we wait till the third quarter to attempt to win the game. At whatever point in life you learn the reason for your existence (Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind, NIV Ecclesiastes 12:13)  and arbitrate it, that is half the battle towards a successful ending. Use the play book (The Bible) and learn the commandments, for the New Testament Christians. This is to say, if you've been blessed to play at high noon, do note that the sun will soon be setting. The things that deemed so important may need to be refocused. It is a time when you need to be awake and be energized so you can decide how your story ends here on earth, with the choices that has been set before you. Will you still focus on accumulating more stuff here, or store towards eternity? Always remember God is ultimately in control and if He has allowed you to play in the third quarter, don't waste time! Win the eternal crown! Learn and use the strategies. Recognizes your adversaries in all it's different forms, for they come in many.