God's Hidden Jewel Poem by Michael P. Johnson

Each day in school we’d stand and pray
The psalms we’d learn to sing
Most teachers then would often say
God’s Son is Lord and King


No matter where my days were spent
What work I had to do
If there I stayed or there I went
Jesus would turn up too


In married life I wasn’t spared
My running was in vain
The child of God who’s life I’ve shared
Brought Jesus once again


How strange the Seed of life is spread
How man receives the rain
When Christ becomes our daily bread
When free from tie and chain


For on the day my child was born
A miracle of life
My heart beheld Salvation’s dawn
Right there beside my wife


God’s holy ways are strange in deed
My child unlocked the door
Now forth had come God’s planted Seed
Sown many years before


I bless the days I spent in school
The times I thought to hide
For then God’s Seed His Living Jewel
Was planted deep inside


Salvation through my Saviour’s love
Revealed the Father’s plan
Revival through The Holy Ghost
God’s greatest gift to man.