Building a tabernacle of meeting: Who is God to YOU?

As we are still lingering in His Presence - a question was posed to me this weekend that I am still pondering.  The question is: "Who is this God we are meeting in the tent of meeting to YOU?"  There are many scriptures we can quote that describes who He is.

To Moses, He was a friend (Ex 33), Whom he could talk to face to face.  To Jacob, He was the God he wrestled with and came out crippled by, saying, "I saw the face of God and yet lived". So intense was the experience that he was relieved to be alive.  Who was God to Ruth?  From my perspective I always wonder what she saw in Naomi's God that made her say, "Your people will be my people and your God will be my God." She lost her husband, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and her mother-in-law was sufficiently bitter about all her hardships that she asked to be called "Mara", which means 'bitter', because she said that God made her life bitter.   What did Ruth see in the God of Naomi that made her leave her own country, family, friends and all that was familiar to her to journey with Naomi to a foreign country, accept a foreign culture and God?  I don't have an answer but I do know the fruit of that decision was profound.  She married Boaz and from their union Obed was born, and from that generational line the Messiah was born many many years later.  

So back to the question - "Who is this God we are meeting in the tent of meeting to YOU?"  Good question.  Lots to think about and to try to put into words.  So how would you answer this question today, this week, for yourself?  Who is God to YOU?

Here is my answer:

Song of Solomon by Martin Smith