How do you grow in the fear of God? In this video, Jason Dohm explains that your fear of God grows the more you read Scripture. Through our reading of Scripture, we understand who God truly is. The God of the Bible is a fearful God. The Bible tells us what God is really like – His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. God’s Word says that the wages of sin is death. We think of death as a natural occurrence, something distinct from sin, but the Bible teaches that death is a result of sin. The Bible makes it clear that though God is merciful in giving a long life, He is under no obligation to wait for a set amount of years. This should cause us to be grateful for life and fear Him for He controls the giving of life, the sustaining of it, and the taking away of it. 1 Samuel 2:6 (NKJV) – “The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.”

I think the fear of the Lord as it grows in your life, as you study the Scriptures, it begins to dawn on you who the God of the Bible really is. I think this is what we're talking about. The God of the Bible is a fearful God. And so as you begin to read these texts that display who God really is, I mean I think you're in for a crisis or two in your walk because you didn't know God was like that. But the Bible tells us what God really is like and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

His ways are higher than our ways. And so as we begin to be corrected, our minds become calibrated to truth. And we're separated from the lack of truth that we had in our lives. You see that that He's a God who kills and He makes alive, for instance. And He kills for disobedience.

The wages of sin is death. And so we've thought of death as sort of a natural process. You come to the end of your life and sort of the cells get out. That's not what the Bible teaches at all. The Bible teaches that death came into the world as a result of our sins and it's the paying of wages.

And it's God who pays them in His own time. He's so merciful that most people, He pays them late in life. You experience death late in life. But the Bible makes it so clear that He's under no obligation to wait. He can pay those wages at any time.

We should fear him.