How Can We Prepare Ourselves to Meet God Face to Face?

By Robert Anthony

May 19, 2026

Adam walked with God. So Adam must have learned something about meeting with God face to face. It’s such a curious story—how the Lord chose to begin His creation. I often think about it. He could have started the world quite differently—really any way He wanted to…

The Lord could have made tens of thousands of men out of the dirt. He could have given Adam hundreds of wives (to multiply the earth faster). God could have made Adam and Eve on the same day. But He did not. There must be a purpose in all of this, even from the very beginning.

Adam and Eve both got to walk with the Lord God as He would come into the midst of the Garden of Eden. It must have been absolutely amazing for them whenever they would get that face-time with God! Could you imagine?

It seems to me that here at the end, we should look back to the beginning — wherein man walked with God, which was always His desire for us — and get insight into how we prepare ourselves to return to walking with Him face to face.

This intimate story speaks volumes to me! Adam was first alone with his Father, and then, sometime later, God put Adam to sleep and made Eve. The Bible isn’t clear about how long Adam was with God alone before God gave him his Eve, but what is clear is that Adam first had a season alone, with God in the garden.

And being alone with God now, what would He say to us? Are we comfortable being alone with God? When we are alone with Him, what will we say? I think the whole story of preparing ourselves for eternity begins with this very simple, very intimate reality of coming to know God—even now—intimately and uniquely.

Perhaps as Christians, or as followers of God, we think it better to go out and win souls, to do some great work in these last days for God—to show Him our love and convince Him we are “good enough” for heaven. But I’m not so sure that is what God is looking for. Jesus even said, “I will build My Church.” It’s curious how little we hear of this fundamental premise of Jesus’ ministry and encouragement to us. Of course, we evangelize. We tell the world about Jesus because it’s so enjoyable to win souls to God! But at the end of the day, Jesus is building HIS Church… because after all, it’s quite literally His.

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I like to think that as Adam got to know his Father, at some point God decided Adam was ready for more responsibility but also a reward! God put Adam to sleep and fashioned out of Adam’s side a woman (for she came out of man). And Adam was immensely blessed! He must have realized it.

So then Adam had to teach his wife everything he knew. I don’t know if there has been much preaching on this—but logically speaking, since Adam was older than Eve and had already spent time alive in the garden with God, Adam would have to show Eve around. Adam probably taught her about the food and trees of the garden—even the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—and it seems very clear to me that it was Adam’s responsibility to help his wife learn to live in the garden and also learn to walk with God. (I hope you can see that.)

Here at the end, once we are walking with God and comfortably right with Him, once we let Him lead us away from sin and learn to be a different and set-apart person on the earth, we should probably bring all that we have learned to our Eves—to our wives, to our most precious gift from our Father! But we should probably do a better job than Adam…

Why didn’t he protect Eve? Have you ever considered it? Why didn’t Adam stand up to that dragon, that serpent—the devil who is Satan—when he was tempting Eve, and tell the devil to leave her alone!? It seems Adam didn’t try at all to guard his wife from that evil. Remember, Adam was standing right next to her, watching and listening to the whole thing as it unfolded! (Genesis 3:6 “…she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”)

So perhaps in preparing ourselves to meet with God, we should help the most important person to us in the whole world also prepare herself to meet with God face to face. What do you think?

There are piles of scriptures telling us to love our wives, keep our family close to God, run a godly household, etc. There are many scriptures about those who would lead the body of Christ, and every time Paul was writing about these leaders and teachers he mentioned the family and how vital it is that these men know how to keep their families with God—or else they aren’t fit to lead!

In preparation to meet with God, we prepare our own hearts and souls and then, almost in tandem with preparing ourselves, we prepare our families also—beginning with the most important person in our life (after God), our wife!

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And now, after having presented those closest to us to God, making them ready to be with God forever—now are we ready to go and convince the world to Jesus!!

If you find this article overly elementary or incorrect, I would hope you would write your opinions in the comments below. I would like to hear from you. If I am missing something from Scripture, I would love to hear your thoughts. But this is my focus—keep my wife and children before the Lord’s face, keep my own soul ready to meet Him, and then perhaps He will give me other families to bless with His living Word, His living Spirit, and Truth!

I love them all so much. I am so blessed that they all love the Lord with their whole hearts, the same way I do!!

At least, even if I fail with my life and ministry and business and whatever else I do with this life—at least I can look Him, look my God right in the eyes and say, “At least I did a good job with my family! I loved them with everything inside of me. And I kept them in Your way…” To me, that would be enough….

There are so many things I would like to do for Him in this final hour of the world, but really most of that is up to Him—the One who is building His Church. I am content to wait on Him while He writes His story in me and upon the earth.

Truthfully, I don’t know if I am ready. To think about standing in front of Him face to face is pretty overwhelming. So I pray, “Lord, make me ready to stand before You. Purge out of me all things that offend and anything defiled.” Sure, it’s a furnace, and it’s hot and uncomfortable, but if that’s where Jesus is, that’s also where I want to be….

I hope this blesses you all.

Soon and very soon we are going to see the King!!

Until His day,

Robert