Habakkuk 1:12
Are you not from time-before-time, ANCIENT ONE, my God, my Holy One? You will never die. HOLY ONE, it is for judgment you have marked them; O Rock, for discipline that you have positioned them.
Habakkuk doesn’t just pray, he names. Ancient One. Holy One. O Rock.
These aren’t filler words; they are anchors. Each name is a reminder to God and to himself of who God has been and still is. Habakkuk’s naming becomes an act of orientation, a way of calling on the qualities of God that speak to the moment’s need.
Do we do the same in our prayers? Do we seek the God who was before time when we feel untethered in our today? Do we lean on the Rock when everything within us is fatigued?
Naming God this way opens us to intimacy, to memory, to possibility. It gives us permission to engage Her differently depending on our ache. Habakkuk teaches us that naming God is not about flattery; it’s about formation and relationship.
What name for God are you needing to use the most right now? What does this name allow you to know about God?
–Dax Franklin-Hicks
The name I'm needing to use right now is Mother God. She's somehow closer, more relatable.