Your Epitaph

Genesis 5:1a This is the book of the generations of Adam.
Genesis chapter 5 is an area of the Bible that is sometimes very to read. It gives a genealogy of Adam and the initial history of man. The thing that fascinates me about genealogy is how it shows where we have come from. The interesting thing about the genealogies in Scripture is that they all point to Christ and vice verse. Not only do we see that the genealogies point to Christ, we also see a small glimpse of what humanity was like at the time. People lived many years so that man could multiply the earth. They were following the command given by God. We also see that there are people that did evil in the eyes of God, while others, like Enoch walked with God. In essence the genealogy left in scripture is an epitaph left that tells the generations to follow about them. I wonder what my epitaph will say when I die. When people look at my life in one or two hundred years what one or two sentences will be able to describe who I was? My prayer is that they will say he was a man who loved God, his family and his country. What will they say of you?