1 Chronicles 16:30

Fear before him. That is, stand before Him in a spirit of holy reverence. Man need not come into the presence of God with a spirit of abject terror and cringing fear. God is a friend to man and not an enemy. He is the sinner’s best friend. Jesus entered this world to come close to sinners and to save them from their sins (see Luke 19:10). Little children could come to Him without a trace of fear. But God is holy. He is the Lord of all heaven and earth, and thus man is ever to manifest toward Him that attitude of respect and reverence that befits His holy name. Such fear is not incompatible with love, yet it is wholly incompatible with the easy familiarity with which some people speak to and of their Maker and Redeemer.