2 Sa 18:16-18

Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel,
or Joab restrained the people.

They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to preserve my name.”
So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

Joab blew the trumpet.
He restrained the people.
The battle was over.

They took Absalom’s body and threw it into a deep pit.
They covered him with a very great heap of stones.
Then all Israel fled to their own tent.

They fled?

Why?

They knew that killing Absalom was wrong.
They knew that guilt was upon someone.

Someone would pay.

Absalom is a sad account.
He had no son.
He wanted a legacy.
He wanted his name to be preserved.

His name was preserved by two piles of rocks.
One over his dead body.
The other a self-constructed pillar called Absalom’s monument.

Sad.
Yet think…

Most people do the same today…even believers.

They spend their entire lives pursuing “monuments of stones”.
These become their legacy.
Monuments that will decay.
Monuments that will erode.
Monuments that are lifeless.

What legacy are you building?

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