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193 · Jan 2021
The Capitol
Caleb John Jan 2021
The greatest way to reclaim a nation, is the relentless attack of peace.
188 · Feb 2019
Priorities
Caleb John Feb 2019
I guess this is more of a prayer

But dear God

I struggle with putting you first

I want to be better at it

I say I put you first

But sometimes these priorities get mixed up in my mind

You know I'm not perfect

Yet you love me

You are a God of Love

I want to get my heart back on track

But I need your Grace
186 · Dec 2017
Insanity
Caleb John Dec 2017
How long will it take for the human race to get it
Girls looking for love from boys who break their hearts
All because their father tore theirs apart
It's psychotic
Teens looking for love in all the wrong places
They find gods who fuel their depression
They look for love in that boy or that girl
It's funny because those same things tempt me
It's scary because people don't seem to understand that if a fire is hot
It means to get away
Don't draw closer
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing multiple times
And expecting the same result
People with broken hearts
What happens when one day
The weight of the depression becomes to great
Then the gun looks like such an easy way out
You just want to put it to your head and pull the trigger
Is that because their is no solution to your problem
Or maybe you just haven't found it yet
Chasing false gods is downfall of humanity
Are you going to join the insanity?
No pleasures of this world will ever solve your problem
If they become your god
They will bring farther down then you ever wanted to go
Humanity is the living definition of Insanity
185 · Jan 2018
Atheism
Caleb John Jan 2018
So full of wholes
So full of lies disguised as truths
The lack of evidence proves it's just a ruse
It's so hopeless
My heart breaks for Atheists
So many work so hard to bring followers of Christ down
There is futility in their lives it will get them no where but down
So many know the truth
So many atheists know of Jesus
Yet they hate him
They've seen him
Yet claim that he doesn't exist
How can you hate something so much
That doesn't exist?
184 · Jan 2018
Death
Caleb John Jan 2018
Darkness
Burning
Complete solitude
Forgotten
Silent screams that will never be heard
Absence if light
Straight pain
Eternal imprisonment
With no parole
183 · Aug 2018
Burn
Caleb John Aug 2018
I'm so sick of a past I can't erase

I know I'm not alone in this feeling

I'm sick of hurting people even when I didn't mean too

I wish I could just burn it down and rebuild a new

But there will always be a part of me that remembers

These demons in my head whispering lies into my ear

SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO BURN IT ALL!!!

Everything I built

Everything I broke

Every friendship I smashed

Every friendship I fixed

I remember the days when I was a hypocrite

I could spew hell fire from my lips but at the same time I was doing everything I condemned.

For those I hurt I'm sorry

I wish God would revive that warrior spirit in me I had all those years ago

I'm done with these demons and I'm done with my past

I'm done with that hypocrisy

I'm new in Christ

This is a new declaration of war on the evil part of my heart I try so desperately to rip out.

This is a declaration of war on the demons whispering in my ear.

By the grace and help from God

You will burn
181 · Oct 2018
Silent Sound
Caleb John Oct 2018
Why can't I focus?

Why is this silence deafening?

This anxiety bouncing off the walls

It reverberates like sound waves

I just wish I could hear the voices of those I love
180 · Dec 2017
I'm Not Enough
Caleb John Dec 2017
I'm not enough
I don't have what it takes
I don't have the strength
I don't have the heart
I don't have the will power
I don't have the voice
That's what I was told for years by people who didn't really know me
They were right
I'm not enough
When it comes to the fight
I'm the first in flight
I'm weak and cowardly
I'm not enough
But some how God took this piece of nothingness
And used me to tell others about him
With God I have nothing
With God I have everything
178 · Jan 2018
The Race of Life
Caleb John Jan 2018
Life is one of the hardest races
It's like running in a high speed chase
Obstacles everywhere
Sometimes you get pushed to the ground
The track looks far and narrow
Full of obstacles that want you to turn back or better yet
Take the wide easy path that cuts through the course
The race of life is the hardest, fastest race you will ever run
Are you fast enough or strong enough
The truth is your not
You need the speed
You need the strength in your muscles that you just don't have
You need that passion for life
The passion only God can give
Those obstacles will try to take you down
You need to jump the highest hurtles
Dodge the largest rocks
Leap over the largest gorges
But I can't these athletic feats
With these feet
I need the strength
I need the speed
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
I can climb the highest mountains
Leap the deepest valleys
Are you ready for the race?
177 · Jan 2018
Death to Life
Caleb John Jan 2018
Walking from day to day
Not living
But not dying
You try the drugs
The alcohol
The love
The greed
Nothing satisfies
The happiness doesn't last
You're just passing time until the clock times out
The cool stuff is never enough
What you thought was love left you empty  
When the drink wears off you feel the need for more to forget your problems
The drugs take everything you have
You're health
You're money
You're time
On the inside all you want is for the clock to run out and end your misery
Then the calm comes and the healing to your misery arrives like a dove flying from the clouds
And it catches you
And carries you to the highest mountains
176 · Nov 2018
Raining Stars
Caleb John Nov 2018
Looking into the night

All I see is your glorious light

Stars dancing like kites

Their colors shining, flickering, flying

Like kingdoms

They rise and fall
173 · Jan 2019
Another Quote
Caleb John Jan 2019
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
- Abraham Lincoln
172 · Jan 2018
Victim
Caleb John Jan 2018
She grew up as a good girl
Got good grades
Had a nice family
A mother who loved her
A father who gave for her
Then one day walking to her car
That blue van pulled up on blew her life into a whole new park
For five years she was imprisoned
For her all her family knew she was dead
For five years she was used for pleasure
Her mind was destroyed
She was left
Starved of love
Beaten
Broken
It took five years for the cops to find her
To break her from her bonds
For five years she played victim
Then after five short years she was able to heal
She found the one who loved her
She found the God of Love
This poem is a fictional story that is based off the lives of many
172 · Aug 2018
Heaven
Caleb John Aug 2018
It's sought out for in the strangest places

Pleasures

Greed

Pride

The strangest places that aren't heaven

They are a mirage in a desert

I found my heaven

God gave it to me

When Christ died on the tree

I've heard people say heaven is a place on earth

But how could this rotten broken world be heaven?

In know I will see it one day

The crystal sea

Colors more beautiful then I could imagine

Colors I've never seen

Angels singing songs of praise more beautiful then birds in the trees

No more sickness

No more pain

Just joy

No tears

Happiness

No depression

Only joy

Jesus made it open to all who call upon His name

So why doesn't anyone call upon His name?

Heaven can be yours for eternity

Why chase this life full of terror and pain and sadness that will never satisfy

Heaven can be yours I beg you

Call upon the name of Christ!

You will have satisfaction you never knew
172 · Jan 2018
Declaration of War
Caleb John Jan 2018
You took farther than I ever wanted to go
You hit harder than I ever wanted to be hit
You broke me more than I thought possible
You made me thirstier than I ever dreamed of
You burned me down to the bone
You destroyed my soul and wreaked havoc upon me
You damaged my relationship between me and my God
You brought me down to the depths of suicide
Some nights I prayed I'd die
So here's my declaration of war
I'm going to fight you to the end of my life
I won't let you control me
I won't let you destroy the ones I love
I will not give in
I will not bend to you
I will not bow to you
This is my declaration of war
To myself
170 · Feb 2018
Suicidal Society
Caleb John Feb 2018
All around all I hear is
Do good in school
Get a good job
Make some cash
You see they leave out the last part
"And die"
I stopped and looked around
Were told to do what we're told and climb the ladder
What they didn't say is there's some broken rungs on that ladder
Money doesn't solve my problems
Neither do some useless pics on a screen
Neither do the pills
The drinks
Or the sleepless nights with a girl
I may not have experienced these things
But I've seen so money lives crash and burn because of them
Here we have the rise of feminism
All I hear are protests
Women's rights regarding abortion,
Pay
Equal rights
Yet those same women
Are the skimpily clad models guys look at on screens
You see the objectification of women doesn't happen with equal rights
So much as the way the look through the eyes of men
I could right day in and day out
Society is crashing
When we'll we get our heads out of the sand and look at ourselves
Abortion is ******
Lust is adultery
When we'll we see the monstrosities in our lives?
When we'll we see the cure
Jesus loves those little babies
What's even stranger is that he loves the killers of those babies
He died for each and every one of them
Jesus died for the adulterers
The rapists
The murderers
The innocent
The arrogant
The Prideful
He died for sinners
He died for this suicidal society
168 · Oct 2019
The Crazy Life
Caleb John Oct 2019
I thought me and this Girl could make it work

Guess God had different plans

Got stabbed in the back

Friends are leaving right and left

One's that I love are falling into the devil's lies

Stress is flooding my lungs

But Christ never left me

My father always protected me

He was always faithful

All through the crazy life

All through the days I might meet my wife

Let's see what happens

Cause I'm ready to run through life

To the end of the line
166 · Aug 2018
Be Still
Caleb John Aug 2018
Dear Son

I hear you scream out of desperation

I see the pain you're going through

I hear your cries of terror

I know the suffering you went through

I watched as your father hit you

I watched as the bullies humiliated you

I saw knew your suffering the day you were left an orphan

I felt your tears run down your cheeks

Did you see?

Did you know?

Did you hear?

Did you watch?

Did you feel?

Did you hear the voice of the mother I gave you who comforted you?

Did you know the bullies stopped because I sent a friend to stand up for you?

Did you watch when I gave you son-ship in a loving home?

Did you feel the son-ship I granted you in my family?

Did you see the healing I provided?

Why then do you cry to me?

Why do you ask for what I already gave you?

I gave you my son?

What more could I have given to prove that I love you?

Be still

Look around at the blessings you have

Don't look at what you don't have

Be still

And know

That I am God

Dear Daughter

I saw the beatings you took

I watched as you were crying on the floor of your room

I saw them scream at you and abuse you

I heard you call my name

I felt the depression and brokenness you felt

I felt the pain you felt of a family who scorned you and treated you like a dog

Did you watch?

Did you see?

Did you hear?

Did you feel?

Did you watch as I sent the neighbor to come check on you?

Did you watch as she took you in and cared for you?

Did you see healing I provided through the comfort of your friends?

Did you hear the uncle who cried with you and tried to be the father he couldn't?

Did you feel the grace and mercy I gave you?

Did you feel my love?

You called and I came

I love you

All this I did for you

Open your eyes to what you have

Count your blessings

Be still

And know

That I am God
Caleb John Apr 2018
He saw a world

A world that was sick

So he came to the world in need of a physician

He humbled himself

He became a man

He gave up his glory and majesty

To save a dying world

He lived a life as a humble carpenter

He lived a life of love and grace

Then He died on a cross

A cross made of simple wood

Three days later he broke the rules of death

He got up and walked

What more could he have done to prove his love?

What more could he have given?

He love our filthy human race who have nothing to offer

But filthy rags

Our pride and arrogance roots our evil

I'm part of that filthy race

I'm no better then anyone else

It makes me sad because I'm a reason he was on that cross

And that's how He saved the world.....
163 · Feb 2019
A Man
Caleb John Feb 2019
I was called to be a man of God

But how can I

You're supposed to count on me

But I can't even count on myself

Jesus gave me salvation and called me to something I couldn't complete

I tried on my own, thinking I'd do something right

But I failed

So I hope one day

Through Gods power

I can be the man you can count on

I want you to know I'm trying

But I can't fight the currents

I tried and died

I realized

That to do what's right

I have to submit to God's river

I can't control the currents

But I can flow with them

I hope I can be that man for you
162 · Jun 2018
Broken
Caleb John Jun 2018
I feel scattered
The devil broke me and nearly destroyed me
He found chinks in my armor
He shot so many arrows into my dying body
I will always remain broken
But I hear that you use broken things
So if you use broken things
Here I am
Use me
I stand broken
Among a broken people
I can see all the cracks and corrosion's that fill our society
It nearly causes me to break even more
But if its true that you use broken things
And broken people
Here I am
161 · Oct 2020
It's Lonely Out Here
Caleb John Oct 2020
I'm in crowd

And all I hear is loud

I feel more alone when I'm with others

Than when I'm by myself under the covers

I know that I'm never truly alone

The one I loved turned into Al Capone

I'm waiting for the one

I'm tired of being full of solitary bones
160 · Jan 2018
By Faith
Caleb John Jan 2018
This world is full of people seeking truth
What truth?
Truth that is supported by evidence
I find it odd that even when given the evidence
People still refuse
To believe
The evidence is all around us
In blood cells
Inside the leaves that dance in the wind
It is evident that he wrote the very laws of nature
The world is to complex
Too large
To be an accident
Through all of this evidence
The Bible still says to walk by faith
I walk by faith because that is what the Bible says
It is not a blind faith
It is faith based off of all the times He proved he was with me and for me
It is by faith I will walk and not by sight
160 · Oct 2019
Like a Wild Fire
Caleb John Oct 2019
Set their hearts ablaze

Show them the love they could never see on their own

I don't know what you did to my soul

But I want to see more of your face

So burn through souls like a wildfire

Your spirit is fast and furious

So keep burning
160 · Sep 2018
60 Million silent cries
Caleb John Sep 2018
Why is it

America the land of the free, the home of the free

Decided to take away the freedom of over 60 million babies

They took their choice to live from them

60 million silent cries for help and we just sit here and debate about what a fetus is

60 million silent cries for help

Who will stand for them?

Who will speak to save the lives of the unborn?

Life starts at conception

If a woman isn't pregnant with a human life

She must not be pregnant

I pray God would forgive America

For unjustly murdering the lives of innocent children

60 million silent cries for help

I will stand for them

Even if I stand alone
159 · Jun 2019
A Cry for Man Kind
Caleb John Jun 2019
Here I stand

There they run

In herds

As a mighty wolf pack they run into the fire

Here I stand while they blindly run, drunk on there own arrogant ignorance

I scream and cry

Yet they do not heed

In to the pit of Hell run billions

They care not for the things of the glorious God who made them

They don't understand that Christ came to save this filthy race called man

I cry in the name of Christ

Turn from the ways of the world

Follow Christ

Grow to know him

Only then can you be saved from an eternity of fire and suffering

I write this because I love you dear reader

The here and now will pass away like snow

But our souls shall never end

They will only move to a different place

Make the right choice of where your soul will go
159 · Jul 2018
Beat It
Caleb John Jul 2018
I've never been good at an intro

So just let me cut to the chase of what many of you have been through

Addiction

Shame

Guilt

Depression

Anxiety

Losing loved ones

All I can say is that my heart breaks

All around me all I see is pain

But I also see healing that you can't contain

I see broken homes

Broken families that seemed alone

I cry out to you who feel this pain

I know you're at your lowest

I know where you're at

I remember losing the fight but then Jesus came up to bat

You thought you could win on your own

I know now Satan's trying to break my hunger

My hunger for Jesus seems to be dying

But I see now that I'm just inches from winning

What ever it is

What ever the pain

Never let suicide be the way out

Don't pull that trigger!!!

I've had my highs and my lows

My Joy and my Tears

But whatever the pain is I beg of you

Follow Jesus

Because only he

Can Beat it
158 · Jan 2018
My Imagination
Caleb John Jan 2018
My imagination is still that of a young child
When I jog down the sidewalk
I'm the flash running faster then time
When I pick up a toy sword
I'm a Jedi
When I go swimming I'm a deep sea diver
Exploring the ocean floor
Some may think it's childish or immature
But the imagination is never meant to die
In my imagination I can do anything I would ever want to do
If I go on a hike I'm in the Himalaya's seeing the highest elevation on earth
This is my imagination
156 · Sep 2018
Armor of God
Caleb John Sep 2018
Every day I wake up and put on my armor

I strap my sword to my side

I cling to my shield

As I walk onto the battlefield every day

The enemy whispers in my ear

Everything is hopeless

What's the point?

Just drop your sword and lay down your shield

It doesn't has to get any bloodier then this

That's when I realize that those demons are right

It doesn't have to because my God already won this war

I'm merely pushing forward from victory

So I will raise my shield high

I would rather come die and be brought home on my shield then drop it and run

I will draw my sword

And I will fight until my last breathe

Will you?


I will draw my sword
155 · Jun 2019
Adoption
Caleb John Jun 2019
Why do we rush to end a life?

So many are quick with a knife because of their own conveniences and preferences

How many are quick to save a life?

As we were adopted into the family of God shouldn't we adopt the innocent little children who are about to be slaughtered?
153 · Jan 2018
Fighting for You
Caleb John Jan 2018
He was dragged to a palace where he was beaten
He was disgraced by the earth
As they scorned him
He forged them
A way
A way out of their despair
They nailed him on an old wooden cross
He could have destroyed his attackers with a thought
Yet he fought for them
He fought for you
As he was dying
He hung their
And thought of you
He fought for you
That day he broke the laws of death
He fights for you now
Every mountain you face he's ready to bring you over
He's fighting for you
153 · Feb 2018
He is With Me
Caleb John Feb 2018
I remember the day I took the brunt of his love
He showed me love that isn't found in this world
He gave me a mission
To tell the world of the things he's done for me
Little did I know
That is one of the hardest missions to have
You see Satan has a plan to destroy this world
He seeks to **** and destroy
But Jesus told me that I have nothing to fear
When he is with me there is no opposition
The hardest tasks become easy
When I am weak
I am made strong
In his love letter to the world
He wrote that he would be with me on this mission until the end of the age
So who shall I fear?
I see so many flaws in modern society
I see broken families
Lost souls
But whats even greater
Is that the King of kings
Who controls the placement of the earth around the sun
The King who has authority of the universe
Sees those souls
And he sees you
He sees our every flaw
But what makes this so great
Is that he sees all of the pain, the sin, the flaws
And he sees it with love
He sends his followers
To help the broken
To take care of the needy
And God is with them
So don't let anyone ever tell you
That God doesn't care about those who suffer
He looks on them with love and grace
When his people do not show the love that they were called to show
When they hate you or mock you as I have
That's not Jesus
That's not his love
He is with me
He can be with you
151 · Feb 2018
The Last Battle
Caleb John Feb 2018
There will be a day
When the whole world will tremble
The whole world will fear
And flow with blood filled tears
Valleys will run red
Because the world turned away from you
You gave the world every chance
But we won't bow to you
You will send your two prophets who will be persecuted
Beaten and scorned
Through your chastisement
Your grace will run evermore
On that day chances will run out
You will come riding in from the sky
Your armies will make this world tremble
As it assembles
On that last battle
This world will fire every destructive force upon you
They will mean nothing
Not even touching your glorious robes
Everything this world has to fight
Will fall
Like a child trying to **** a mountain
This world will have been given every chance
Every grace of salvation
But when that day comes
You will finally release your righteous fury
And this world will fall
Sin must one day end
You love the souls of this world
You died for us
You give every warning
Every grace
Every possible chance to tell us of your coming day
You will take your children home
But those that refused you
Will be lost
In that last battle
150 · Sep 2019
The Sword
Caleb John Sep 2019
Used to protect

Sharp

Shining

Fierce

Can pierce the hearts of men

Yet preserve them
150 · Sep 2018
Canvas of Creation
Caleb John Sep 2018
His brush strokes are big and small

As small and intricate as the atom

As big as the galaxies that make up the night sky

How beautiful is this world

Its canyons and oceans

This creation is certainly beautiful

Yet the creation of heaven is even more beautiful

Thank you God

For the eyes to see this beauty
149 · May 2019
The Truth
Caleb John May 2019
Abandon your perception on reality

What you believe

What I believe

None of it matters if it's not true

We cannot create reality

We can merely exist in it and find out what the true reality is
148 · Apr 2019
Outcast
Caleb John Apr 2019
Everyone walking as one

Every step synchronized

Yet know one questions where they are going

"Into the valley of death rode the 600"

"Theirs not to reason why"

"Theirs but to do and die"

Then when I stop marching everyone looks at me like I'm crazy

I can't help but to scream that they blindly march to their death

But they won't listen

They try to pull me back into the crowd

They tell me to keep marching

Just be a good clone and don't question why

Yours is but to do and die

So I'll just be the outcast

I'll walk to the beat of my God's drum

If I walk alone then that's okay

So what I walk alone

I want to walk with my Father
146 · Jan 2018
You Say
Caleb John Jan 2018
You say that he's the worst father
You say all he does is mistreat his daughters
You ask how can he be a good father if your life is so bad
You just made me so sad
First off
What grounds do you have
You never called on him to be your father
You say he allows terrible things happen to the innocent
You didn't look at how he provided healing
You say all these things with looking at the entire picture
You say what you know
You never took the time to look beyond your own life
Why?
Because all you care about is you
After he saves you you'll just go back to your old ways without a thought
You'll do what I did
The truth is you don't know what you say
So I'm calling you out
Now
WHAT WILL YOU SAY!!!!!
This Poem isn't written about the father in a normal home this poem is about the ultimate Father God
145 · Jul 2019
Walking on Water
Caleb John Jul 2019
My feet are so unsteady

Waves crash all around me

Tidal waves cause me too stumble

I see the storm that's coming

I scream and begin to sink

Then I fix my eyes on my salvation

Then I begin to stand again
145 · Dec 2017
My Heart
Caleb John Dec 2017
If you could see
My filth ridden heart
You would only want to tear me apart
You see my outside
I look like I'm chill
And I've got everything under control
The truth is
I battle my heart constantly
I am the chief of sinners
In need of a savior
I fight pressures on all sides
When I jump into the fight all alone
I'm sent spinning
My strength just isn't enough to win
I begin to cave in because all these pressures are to much for me
But it's not about me
It's not my fight
It's a burden I was never meant to bear alone
It's the fight that was won two thousand years ago
I'm just feeling the aftershock
The truth is that I'm a sinner who is just a fool
But when Jesus came in my soul
I began to ignite
And God made one of his knights
This heart isn't mine it belongs to my King
Jesus Christ
144 · Dec 2017
The Flames of Hell
Caleb John Dec 2017
Sit down now and let me tell you the truth
There's a place of danger
A place of fire
A place called Hell
Don't go there
You see there are two places after death
One is Heaven
One is Hell
Don't follow this world in to the flames of Hell
Follow Jesus into the arms of Heaven
You see this world is running head long into a fire hotter than this world has ever known
It burns hotter than molten stone
All I want to do is tell the world
You don't have to go there!
Follow the one who loves you
Some may say
If God loves me than why would he let me go to Hell
HE DID EVERYTHING TO SAVE YOU FROM HELL
He sent his son Jesus to die on the cross
He gave you a gift
Are you gonna take it or throw it away?
It's your call but I told you about how to be saved
From that eternal fire
I love you that's why I warn you
Jesus loves you
That's why he died for you
Please choose Jesus over Hell
Choose love over death
144 · Sep 2018
Broken Walls
Caleb John Sep 2018
Stop allowing the walls to grow around you

Don't allow the labels to block out those who love you

Don't block out the God who loves you

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE WHAT OTHERS SAY YOU ARE!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET THOSE WHO HATE YOU STAND TALLER THEN THOSE WHO LOVE YOU!

You were made to be loved

But not by the world

You weren't created for this world

You were created for some place beyond outer space

You were created to be saved

So stand up call upon God to save you

Tap into his power to break the walls of oppression

He will save you

Maybe not immediately

Maybe not when you expect

but he will break your walls
144 · Sep 2018
Change
Caleb John Sep 2018
Get good grades in school
So you can buy a house with a pool
Says teachers and parents
Like that's all that matters
Money and patents
But lets step back
My patience is about to scatter
There are millions around the globe
Enslaved, starving and hurting
Shootings more common then ever
But we're told
Forget about all that it probably won't happen to you
So live for yourself, go for the gold
Because this life is yours so live it to the fullest
Yes I do well in school
Not for the grades and money
But so I can one day give those less fortunate then me
Don't get me wrong I'm thankful for my education
But from whom much is given much is required
Our generation can be different
Instead of being greedy for money and power
Why don't we be the change in the lives of the sour
This world is in need of love
Be the change
Set captives free
Fight for what's right
We can be the change
141 · Apr 2018
I. A. M. T. I. R. E. D.
Caleb John Apr 2018
I'm sick of it
I'm sick of a world who refuses forgiveness
I'm sick of a filthy world
I'm sick of Christians who believe they're somehow better then the world
I'm sick of myself because I struggle with love
I struggle with loving the way my father loves
I struggle to see the world through my fathers eyes
I'm tired of Legalistic people who think they've somehow got it figured out
That think that somehow they're righteous enough
I'm tired of fighting for the dying that I love
When they reject me
But
I will still love them
I will still fight for them
I will strive to love the way my father does
I will fight to give the compassion my father does
I will not bow to pride
I will not bow to lust
I will not bow to greed
I will not waste what I have
I will not give up
I'm tired of this world
And I'm tired of fighting
But I have been given the task of Jeremiah
I have been given the voice to speak
Although many will not listen
None of this is my work
I didn't do any of this
My Father did
He gave me his grace
All I ever did
Was say
Yes
140 · Jul 2019
There's More 2.0
Caleb John Jul 2019
There's more to life than your crush

Or that fancy car

Or the internet

Or school

Or your dream job

Those things are good in context

But that's not all there is to life

There are galaxies more to life
139 · Oct 2018
Before You Were Born
Caleb John Oct 2018
Did you know you were thought of before you were born?

The God who made you made a plan for you before the world began

When Jesus walked the Earth

He loved those in the world and came to save the world

And then the ones he came to save

Put him on a cross

He was beaten and whipped

He was bruised and battered by beatings that killed many

But he planned to take that pain

He knew he would do it

And he knew who he was doing it for

When he was put on that cross

He thought of you

He thought of your name

He thought of your personality

Your face

And he knew many of those he loved

Would reject him

Don't reject him

He loved you before you were even born
139 · Mar 2018
I
Caleb John Mar 2018
I
I persecuted you
I scorned you
I was the scars on your back from those whips
I was the fist that beat you
I was the spear that was plunged into your side
I was the hammer that pounded the nails into your hands and feet
I was the thorns pressed into your head
I was the crowd that shouted for your death
I was the soldiers who mocked you and beat you
I was the disciple who betrayed you
I was the Governor who allowed you to be killed
I was the reason you were put on that cross
After all I have done to you
I hated you when you loved me
I gave you insults when you gave me encouragement
I slapped your hand away when you reached out
After all of this you give me never ending grace!
No matter how hard or how fast I ever ran
You always ran faster
You always ran harder
I am the chief of sinners!!!
I lead those who persecuted you
I was the apostle Paul who you have used to love people
You used me to love others as you have loved me
How do I pray to you when I have nothing to offer?
You build me up when I tear you down
You give me life when I thought I could never leave that guilt that was death
You freed me
You disciplined me
You fight for me
You died in my place
You died for the world
You fight to save sinners and to love sinners
You are the lover of sinners and after all I've done
I am saved by grace!!!!!!
139 · May 2020
Complacent
Caleb John May 2020
Is this you?

Focused on your own life?

Your enjoyment?

Your entertainment?

There's children in South America being hunted on the streets for sport

There's shootings across the globe

There are women contemplating killing their child because they aren't able to take care of them

There are mothers raising their kids alone, no one to defend them

No husband or father to fight for them

Slavery is still alive

Who will stand for what's right? Who will fight for the defenseless?

Is it you?

Or are you too busy thinking about what you are going to eat for lunch or where you are going on vacation?

Is there any man willing to dump the poisonous images and stop thinking of their own pleasure for the sake of others?

Are you complacent?
139 · Apr 2018
Brave
Caleb John Apr 2018
Dear God

You called me to go into a school in need of love

I was told to be confident in battle because you promised that no weapon formed against us will ever stand

But now I don't feel very brave right now

I guess this is more of a prayer than a poem

My soul is just worn from the fact that all I see

Is a world that doesn't want a paid fee

But you called me to be brave

So I will keep going

I will run through this flame

All my life is a fight

For this is the reason that I was created

To Love as You do

To be Compassionate as You are

To be Brave because You are with me
136 · Oct 2020
A Past
Caleb John Oct 2020
I used to write like I was running out of time

Some days my soul feels so poor it doesn't have a dime

I'm still pouring poison into my soul

My mind used to be as sharp maybe it's grown dull

I still pursue my God

He guides my life and where I trod

But lately I keep struggling trying to put him there

At the top of this barren fair

He invested so much in me

Was it all a waste?

I feel like a patriot in Boston dumping that tea

It wasn't in me, his faith was placed

I know his faith is in himself shining through me

If my future is blown from my past

He is not to blame
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