Watch Over Us

God tells us in 2:104 and 4:46 that we should say, Unzurna “God, watch over us.” We need to implore Him for His protection and His care. The fact is that God is always watching over us, whether we know it or not, whether we thank Him or not.

God tells Moses how watchful He has been throughout Moses’s life:

[20:37] “We have blessed you another time. [20:38] “When we revealed to your mother what we revealed. [20:39] “Saying: ‘Throw him into the box, then throw him into the river. The river will throw him onto the shore, to be picked up by an enemy of Mine and an enemy of his.’ I showered you with love from Me, and I had you made before My watchful eye. [20:40] “Your sister walked to them and said, ‘I can tell you about a nursing mother who can take good care of him.’ We thus returned you to your mother, that she may be happy and stop worrying. And when you killed a soul, we saved you from the grievous consequences; indeed we tested you thoroughly. You stayed years with the people of Midyan, and now you have come back in accordance with a precise plan. [20:41] “I have made you just for Me.

Truly, God has made each one of us individually and has shaped us and guided us and watched over each of us. Our paths are very different, but the one constant is that God is always there.

When God told Moses to go to      Pharaoh, Moses was afraid. He knew Pharaoh’s might and he knew that he was a fugitive, subject to punishment, maybe even death. [20:45] They said, “Our Lord, we fear lest he may attack us, or transgress.”

God’s response was to reassure him that no harm would come to him because God was watching over him. [20:46] He said, “Do not be afraid, for I will be with you, listening and watching.

God commanded Noah to build a boat in the middle of the desert. This must have seemed like a strange request and it subjected Noah to a lot of ridicule from his people.

[11:37] “Build the ark under our watchful eyes, and with our inspiration, and do not implore Me on behalf of those who have transgressed; they are destined to drown.”

[11:38] While he was building the ark, whenever some of his people passed by him they laughed at him. He said, “You may be laughing at us, but we are laughing at you, just as you are laughing.

Noah followed God’s command, trusted in God, and God saved him and those few who believed with him.

[54:13] We carried him on a watercraft made of logs and ropes. [54:14] It ran under our watchful eyes; a reward for one who was rejected. [54:15] We have set it up as a lesson. Does any of you wish to learn?

Jesus also trusted in God and faithfully served as a messenger. In the end, he told God that he did exactly as God commanded him. He knew that ultimately everything was in God’s control. [5:117] “I told them only what You commanded me to say, that: ‘You shall worship GOD, my Lord and your Lord.’ I was a witness among them for as long as I lived with them. When You terminated my life on earth, You became the Watcher over them. You witness all things.

 

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