God comes with the gentle wine of His Spirit--His tender love & reveals His goodness to us. He reveals Himself to us as the tender, loving, compassionate Father. He draws us in with His lovingkindness & teaches us who He truly is so that we can trust that He is good & He cares for us. He delivers us from all our fears with His perfect love, & gives us the Spirit of adoption that we can cry out, "Abba, Father!"
Through this display of His love, we are delivered from a wrong view of who God is. We are given our identity as sons & daughters. It is necessary.
Then, the Lord comes with the fire of His spirit & makes us priests before Him. He teaches us the honor & reverence of a Father.
His problem with the priests in the book of Malachi was that they had no honor or reverence for the Father & it led to living a life of sin--divorce, not giving tithes, not taking care of wives, & children--living for themselves with no respect for God. This was the account that the Lord had against the priests. They had no Fear of the Lord.
The heart response to the revelation of the Father should be joy, but it should also be reference. He shows us different attributes of Himself without suspending any one attribute at any time. He comes down to our level so we can see Him rightly.
Ask the Lord to give you honor & reverence for the Father.
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