Let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe (Hebrews 12:28). I encourage us all to take the opportunity to be AWED; even by the small things this life holds! But God did something truly awesome for us. "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Barclay commentary on Matt 6:9 (hallow be thy name) - for reverence there is a necessary a constant awareness of God, to live in a God-filled world, to live a life in which we never forget God. This awareness is not confined to just holy places, it must be an awareness which exists everywhere and at all times. The trouble with most people is that our awareness of God is spasmodic, acute at certain times and places, total absent at others.
How did we lose the reverence? See idolatry.
Webster dictionary defines "blasphemy" as lack of reverence for God.
When Paul fell flat on his face in the blinding presence of Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, I don’t believe he was filled with respect. Paul was filled with fear!
Reverence and respect are similar in meaning and are often used interchangeably. However, reverence also carries with it the idea of worship and is therefore more appropriate in our relationship with God and anything associated with Him. Reverence is also defined as "a feeling of profound awe, respect, often love, veneration, honor." It's very important to exhibit reverence during worship; it demonstrates your concept of the level of greatness of the one being worshiped. In fact, each of the Ten Commandments addresses reverence. Think about it: They deal with respect for God's position and Person, His name, His Sabbath day, for parents and for life, marriage, truth, and property.
Seeing nature's splendor pulled back the veil and helped me glimpse the greatness of God, the Creator of the infinite cosmos - and I thought, "This is the God who loves me. Who died to save me!"
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 1:7). Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty, that has had a vision of God's awful greatness, His ineffable holiness, His perfect righteousness, His irresistible power, His sovereign grace.
*REVERENCE
The more the world was explored and understood, the greater knowledge of and reverence for God would result. Nothing reason would uncover could ultimately contradict theological doctrine, for both reason and faith derived from the same source. Nature and spirit were intimately bound up with each other, and the history of one touched the history of the other. Man himself was the pivotal center of the two realms, "like a horizon of the corporeal and of the spiritual". Philosophy could stand on its own virtues apart from, and yet complementary to, thelogy. (Mind, p179-181)