There is something almost unserious about the phrase "drawing a line in the sand." You can make a line with the heel of your shoe, the end of a stick, or even your finger if the soil is soft enough. Or, if we rewind to medieval times of war, you could draw the line with…
Read the full reflection:
https://www.omosa.co.za/iron-sharpen-iron/when-the-line-we-draw-becomes-the-life-we-live/
Contributor/Author: Tsholo L. Sehume
And whatever you do today, may it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
Some words are serious because they help people name serious things. But, people, let us be careful not to become fluent in labels while lacking in discernment.
In this Omosa Journal (https://www.omosa.co.za/iron-sharpen-iron/labels-vs-discernment/), i am not interrogating the words themselves but rather some of the tendencies, behaviours, patterns, traits, etc. that often accompany the usage of such words.
The simple idea is that labels are quick to judge and discernment is slow to conclude.
We really need to think about the words we are using, why we are using them, and what long-term effect they have when we keep throwing them around.
My challenge to you this week:
Watch your words. Mind your words. Mind the person or thing before you label them
Before you name it, discern it.
And whatever you do this week, let it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
The first half is gone. Half of 2026 is gone-gone.
But I want to encourage those of you who might be thinking that the year is over.
It's not. And if those thoughts are in your head, I want you to take this period as just half-time.
Before you rush into the second half, pause and ask: What has been shaping you while you were trying to survive, build, heal, lead, and keep going? Use the half-time period to reflect and think about how you will get a win.
I wrote this for anyone who needs to breathe, reflect, adjust, and return with a clearer heart.
Hello everybody
This week, this cold cold week …before you accept a label, pause long enough to encounter the substance. This week, don’t trust your first idea blindly.
This week, let’s ask a question like: have I truly understood this person, idea, place, movement, or wound well enough… or have I only unconsciously inherited a conclusion about it?
In my journal every this week I look at some reasons why we might rush to label things before we understand them.
Read it here: https://www.omosa.co.za/a-label-%E2%89%A0-attention/
Oh, and whatever you do this week…let it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
Tsholo L. Sehume
I cheated this week, and I apologise. 😅
The Weekly Journal was supposed to land on Sunday, but I only finished it this morning and still published it under Sunday, 14 June 2026.
This week’s reflection is titled:
A Kind of Emptiness
It speaks about leadership in the home, at work, in ministry, in business, in friendship, and in community - especially the kind of emptiness that can come when people keep pouring from places that have not had time to be restored.
The thought carrying this one is simple:
God sees the people who drink, but He also sees the cup.
Please go read it when you get a moment. May it help us see the people who carry responsibility, not only what they carry.
Whatever you do today, may it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
And just like that, we close the Before God, Without the Story series.
Part 1 asked what happens when we say, “God was not at the centre.”
Part 2 sat with The Weight of Covenant.
And now Part 3 brings it all before God Himself: God is Omega. Not Closure.
This final reflection is about the danger of using God’s name as a full stop when He may still be inviting us into truth.
Not every story needs quick closure. Some stories need to bow before God.
Please read the final piece when you get a moment. https://www.omosa.co.za/part-3-god-is-omega-not-closure/
May it help us speak more truthfully, carry what God entrusts with more reverence, and stop using spiritual language to escape what God wants to heal.
Oh, and whatever you do today, may it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
Stop letting all you see be all you see.
Our eyes observe reality, but they were never meant to imprison possibility. Sometimes what is visible is true, but incomplete. The empty bank account may be true. The closed door may be true. The delay may be true. The rejection may be true. But none of these things are the whole story when God is still speaking, forming, preparing, correcting, opening, and making a way.
Faith is not pretending not to see. Faith is not denying reality. Faith is refusing to let sight have the final word. Faith is letting God have the final say.
Nna ke ya kerekeng. Wena have a nice day. Oh and whatever you do today, may it be pleasing to God.
One, Ever-Perfect, Ever-Sure Love.
Over and out 🫡
Can I talk to men for a minute?
Gentlemen, what we carry before God is heavier than what we explain to people, or even convince ourselves of. In this 3-part series, covenant is the heaviest topic for me because I went through a phase of self-condemnation, which, I believe, God used in my life to teach me the gift of grace. And on that note, let me get this out of the way: I am not married. I do not have children. I am single and, by some of the world’s standards, I am neither rich nor successful. So, if these place me in the box of people you would listen to, please feel free to give this article a kind skip. I apologise for the drama and directness. It is only that I want to talk to people who want to listen and are willing to listen. Truly listen.
Okay. The ground has been established, so here goes…
Read more here: https://www.omosa.co.za/part-2-the-weight-of-covenant/
Whatever you do today, may it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
Thank God it’s Friday. Truly. For this the day the Lord has made. In it, we faithfully choose to forgo the convenience of feeding the flesh to invite the formidable and sacrificial force of prayer and fasting as we focus today’s offering on Forgiveness.
We must fearlessly face our own faults, and where possible find ways forgive and to:
- Fix the fractured.
- Free what’s fettered.
- Flush friction out.
- Find divine favor.
As we fast today, let us, those who dare to believe, consider that forgiveness is first a foundational act of faith before it is a feeling.
Today, let us freely offer ourselves to forgiveness because we, too, have fallen short. Let us firmly release past failures, and fully embrace the Father’s grace and favour.
In fervent faith.
Yours.
One, Perfect Love. 🙏
Most High greetings,
Brethren, we all go through challenges. All of us. Without exception - no matter how “perfect” or trouble-free someone’s life might seem.
But, of course, not all challenges are the same. Some are weightier than others. And in other instances, a challenge that would break one person is a challenge another person deals with daily with ease. And it could also happen that the very challenge the other person faces daily is impossible for them to solve but the easiest thing to solve for another.
There are these words you’ll hear a lot especially when answering the question “what happened?” or when people diagnose their lives, usually in retrospect… they’ll say “God was not at the centre.” Sometimes it’s even a question that you’re asked “Was God the centre?”. Centre of your decisions, life, relationships, business, career, studies, etc.
In this week’s journal I am not writing this because there’s anything wrong with the sentence. I am writing because I have become interested in what happens immediately after the sentence is spoken. That little space. That small window. That almost invisible shift in the room, or in the heart, after someone admits/confesses/declares/states that “God was not at the centre”.
This is Part 1 of a 3-Part series called “Just you and God, without the stories.”
Enjoy: https://www.omosa.co.za/part-1-god-was-not-at-the-centre/
Whatever you do the week, let it be pleasing to God.
One, Perfect Love.
Over and Out.
