Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

If you are a fan of Game of Thrones you will recognize this quote from Night’s Watch Commander Jon Snow, “And now my watch is ended.” It was with this word he ended his vow to the Night’s Watch. It was a covenant between men and duty, that was not to be broken except by death.

1 Corinthians 11:25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” ESV

Let me ask you this very pointed question; do you have the right to say your watch is ended?

We often drink the cup of remembrance and with it say “Our watch has not ended.” Only a physical death in this life we live releases us from oath we took when we were set to be watchers on the wall.

Have you kept silent? Have you not mentioned the Lord day and night?

You have taken the cup of remembrance but what did you remember? His death, His resurrection, His promises, His grace, His mercy, His forgiveness, have you remembered all that? How about your knight’s watch? Have you forgotten your oath my brothers of the Knight’s Watch?

Hebrews 6:11-12 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Our watch is not over.

Romans 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

I find the passages within Romans 7 to be some of the most confusing passages to grasp. In order to survive the onslaught of confusion I have to cling dearly to that which I have learned and understood in chapters 5 and 6 of Romans. I cling dearly to those truths as I try and reconcile the confusion.

Romans 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Paul lays out a comparative analysis of marriage and death and law. He is after all speaking to those who understand the law. We soon lose the analogy of marriage within those passages as Paul shifts to the principles of the struggles of life and death within the ruling principles of spirit and sin. Both are at work within us. Yet the comparative is about the law of marriage, Christ being our betrothed.

Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

If that did not clear up the confusion, I am not surprised.

Cling to Christ your betrothed all the harder and do not let go.