ADAM'S GENEALOGY

In the book of Genesis chapter five, a genealogy of Adam was given. It says that Adam begot a son and named him Seth. After he begot Seth, he lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters and he died. Seth begot Enosh, after He begot Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years and had other sons and daughters and died. Enosh begot Cainan. After he begot Cainan Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, had other sons and daughters and died.
The genealogy continues like that from Cainan until Noah. Between Seth and Lamech the father of Noah, every man had a son whose name was given, he lived for a very long time had other sons and daughters and died. However, when it got to Noah, the names of his three sons were listed.
The amazing thing in the genealogy is that each man had one prominent son whose name we know but each man had other sons and daughters who nobody will ever know except the sons of Noah whose names we all Know. The bible was careful to state the number of years the unknown sons and daughters’ father lived after the birth of the prominent son. Thus each unknown son and daughter of each man had at least five hundred years to do something while his father was alive that will bring him or her into prominence and cause their name to be recorded in the bible and preserved for eternity even if it was just offering daily sacrifice to God or one outstanding sacrifice to God. Unfortunately all the unknown sons and daughters lived ordinary lives such that it was a waste to mention their names in the bible until Noah came along.
Noah had a gigantic project in which his sons chose to be involved with. He also trained his sons to obey God in a very corrupt world thus qualifying them to enter the ark and thus had all their names HAM, SHEM AND JAPHET were preserved for eternity in the bible. Ham went a step further in birthing such off springs that left a significant impact that all his children and their descendants’ names were listed up to the point where they became nations.
Now it did not matter the birth position of the person to get mentioned. In fact in Chronicles, Jabez had to step out to make an extra ordinary request that pushed his name forward and made him more prominent than others
This shows us that in life, there are two options open to everybody. You can choose to do something with your life that will make you stand out and have your name known by everyone and be a beacon of light shining out for others to notice or you can choose to be like the unknown sons and daughters by living an ordinary life. The unknown sons and daughters had life toss and turn them all around without making any effort to change something around them.
The choice of what to be is in the hand of every man or woman and looking at the length of time their father lived to see them achieve something, it shows us that each of us has enough time in life to create some changes or make an impact that will mark our name in the sand of time and for eternity. So the choice is up to every man and woman to decide if his or her name will be mentioned or if he or she will just be one of the other sons and daughters that a father had.