How Often I Have Failed You Poem by Michael P. Johnson

How often in life I’ve failed You
How far we’ve grown apart
What can I say what can I do?
To heal my troubled heart

How truly I must have grieved You
How much I now regret
I thought if I could start anew
I’d try to pay my debt

You saw my heart my troubled mind
How much I tried to please
But still my God I failed to find
Until I bent my knees

How much Your child was crying
Shaking from head to toe
But though I kept on trying
The craving wouldn’t go

I prayed and prayed through many tears
Yet strangely feeling good
As peace replaced all my fears
And then I understood

By faith in You I placed my trust
Your love You gave to me
Before You raised me from the dust
The Truth had set me free

I’m free because of Heaven’s grace
Free where others fail
To rise and see my Father’s face
Beyond death’s shadowed vale

I saw the cross I saw Your pain
I saw Your hands and feet
Your suffering was not in vain
Your death made love complete ……