Counted With the Stars (Out From Egypt, #1)

by Connilyn Cossette

He was attacking each of our gods, one by one. This was no natural occurrence as the priests had assured us when the Nile had turned to blood. These were pointed, powerful attacks on the deities of our country.

I never thought of that before as I never really studied the exodus. However, she’s absolutely correct that God knocked down every single idol/god of the Egyptians. Isn’t He amazing!

But sometimes it seems to me like Yahweh chooses to work through the most unlikely of people.”

“Perhaps Adonai chose Mosheh to show us all this is not about Mosheh, but about Yahweh.”

But here at the bottom of the sea, freedom beckoned, pulling me farther away from my chains. The tether that had seemed to bind me to Egypt had been severed by the breath of Yahweh.

But this god called Elohim, or Yahweh as I now knew him, asked for sacrifice not to please himself or to be appeased, but as a gift to his people, to cover their sins.

Yahweh could not be contained in an image, that his glory outweighed all the gold on the earth, that a mere piece of wood or stone carving could never capture the perfection and majesty of his being.

Exactly!

I believe that Yahweh did not just speak creation into existence. I believe he sang it into existence. Sometimes when I am alone, playing the lyre and singing, I feel as though he is singing with me. I am working together with the One who made the stars to create something new.”

I think he's right.

evil men do evil things and even Yahweh’s people are not immune to suffering.

As true today as it ever was.

Yahweh cared enough to bring me out of slavery and ignorance, protect me in the desert, and to reveal himself to me in a tent during the middle of a battle. The God who parted the sea could surely mend the rift in my heart.

Indeed, He can and will.

Yahweh is the creator of all that there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our hearts will stop beating, our eyes will close, the mountains may someday crumble, the trees will wither away, but Yahweh will always be.”