Higher Excellence

The privileged that's not light It's not a crown, it's carved sacrifice It's a life consumed by fire, in a flame Set where the wall are breaking Not for comfort or silence It's a trembling through the night Not lying in idle grace But to stand when truth is wounded Heavens records duty and silence As equal to blame and neglect Not a soft approving call And truth must cost you all For the love doesn't stay silent And the danger fills the way It warns with love and earnestness Pleading both night and day Remember you are the keeper of the vineyard The apple of his vision, as great as His name So, rise above fear, stand firm, though heaven falls Few may remain, but in sorrow , In truth and in pain God walks besides you, thou must count, and pay the cost