I am the Lord your God. You must live holy lives. Be holy because I am holy.
Leviticus 11:44
God isn’t your buddy. He isn’t a genie in a magic lamp sent to grant your wishes. He is holy, he is perfect, and he requires honor and reverence. But because he is also forgiving, kind, and loving beyond compare, it can be easy to get so relaxed around him that you verge on being disrespectful. The Bible does talk about being a friend of God and how when you make him the Lord of your life he adopts you as his own child, but that doesn’t give you permission to lose your awe and reverence for him. As a God Girl you can’t forget your place. Don’t get so relaxed around God that you treat him with disrespect. Don’t get so casual with him that you forget the reverence he deserves.
Reverence isn’t something that weakens you to make him strong. You are actually made strong by admitting how powerful God truly is. When you get relaxed around God and think of him as more of a buddy than a deity, you run the risk of not giving God the faith he needs in order to be able to act in your life. Reverence reminds you not only who he is but who you are, so that in everything you do you will act in godliness and awe and not in childishness and disrespect. As a God Girl you must live a holy life because the one you worship is holy. Wanting anything less is disobedience and disrespect.