Ebenezer

Ebenezer means stone of help — from eben (stone) and ezer (help). After God gave Israel a great victory, the prophet Samuel set up a stone and named it Ebenezer, saying, hitherto hath the LORD helped us. It was a monument of memory: a physical marker so that future generations would ask about it and be told the story of God's faithfulness.

The idea of raising an Ebenezer became a way of speaking about deliberately remembering God's help — marking the places in a life where he came through. The hymn Come Thou Fount enshrines it: here I raise mine Ebenezer; hither by thy help I'm come. To raise an Ebenezer is to refuse to forget, to build reminders of grace into memory, so that past faithfulness fuels present trust.