Somebody’s Watching Over Us All the Time
In 1949, George Orwell’s prophetic book, “1984” was published, providing a frightening overview of the future with “Big Brother” watching our every move. We now know that Orwell’s vision was surprisingly accurate in many ways. With surveillance cameras just about everywhere these days, we have come to realize that someone is always watching us.
Of course, as believers, we have known that someone has been watching over us from the very beginning. Even when we fall victim to temptation and slink into crevices of darkness, we feel the presence of God. No matter where we are or what we are doing, He is always within an earshot through prayer.
The Book of Psalms brings us assurance of this in several passages, including Chapter 121, versus 5-8, which states, “The Lord watches over you — the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm — He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.”
Psalm 32 also reinforces this message when it states, “The Lord looks down from heaven; He sees all the children of man; from where He sits enthroned He looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, He who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.”
And finally, Proverbs 15:3 sums it up quite nicely with these words: “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”
Let us not forget, as Advent comes to a close, that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, among his many titles, is known as Immanuel, “God with us.”