When we try, we set ourselves or some court of appeals above God, and that is a horrendous sin against the deity of God. But reverence is a foreign emotion to fallen human beings. Most people do not have any experience of reverence. Wherever God is considered a pal or a sidekick or a grandfather or the religious drug of the uneducated, he cannot be revered. There are many affections you can feel for a little God, but reverence is not one of them.
Reverence is the combination of admiration and fear, awe and dread, wonder and terror.
It's an emotion that we were made to experience. And in its absence we create motion pictures and take vacations which do their best to provide a substitute. We long to be awe-struck. We long for some friendly terror and some joyful dread. John describes a scene in the book of Revelation of a white horse with a rider who is called Faithful and True.