Coincidence?

While working through my Bible study today, I was suddenly struck by what arrogant people we are. I don't even know if it is our culture or our times or our location, but what I do know is that it is disturbing. I wonder if it's even possible to regain some of the humility we should be living in after being so enveloped by a people who cling so tightly to their "rights." We are inundated with the message that we "deserve" this and are "worth more" than that.

God is the great "I AM." The Israelites deemed this name that God calls himself so sacred that they wrote it without vowels so that it couldn't be spoken. Their approach to writing the name was just as reverent: scribes bathed before writing it and afterward destroyed the writing implement. There was nothing casual about their concept of the I AM.

Were these the religious freaks who lived and breathed God and did nothing but bathe themselves in the Word day and night? Or were these simply those who believed in the Everlasting, like you and I?

Has God become so mundane to us that we have lost all reverence for Him, like that the Israelites expressed? Has He simply become the way to NOT end up in hell? Is He not so much more than that?