The Joy and the Cost

When God He is speaking, That voice in your ear

He talks of your joys, He shows you your fears

The pain of the others, The weary and lost

Those that have found Him, At joy and at cost

They call Him the savior, They greet him with cheer

They forget with the knowledge, That binds us all here

To draw Him the open, To welcome with glee

To live through His might, With bowed head and bent knee

To see it is coming, To taste this new test

There is no great winner, There is no real best

The sorrow it comes, The balance be made

The payment extracted, For the table we have laid

We fight and we conquer, We chose our new foe

We say we are righteous, But inside we all know

The love we have in us, We hide and we dare

We choose only the worthy, To honor and share

But now time has come, To look what we wrought

To wonder the payment, For what we have bought

So we sit and we ponder, We try not to think

We are sick with the knowing, We are the weak link

It’s time to take hold, To do what is right

To share that love, To honor His light

So smile with knowledge, And find joy in what you see

Start your day with grace, And be what you are to be

Open your heart, Be brave and to dare 

For all He really wanted, Was for us to care