The glory of Christ has always been a bit confusing to me. I recognize that it is essential to the process of sanctification and that it is a direct work of the Spirit to help me see Christ's glory. However,what am I looking for? Am I looking for sheer majesty; a Damascus Road experience? Do I take what seems to be exhausted by Scriptural language and attempt to conjure up awe in lieu of it?
(In attempting to make sense of all of this, John Owen has been so helpful.) Although the passages referring to the throne room are glorious and overwhelming, Christ's glory is seen most clearly in his incarnation. This is what the gospel writer John is so stoked about. In John 1, there is this Light that bursts onto the scene of redemptive history with supernova-like intensity. It is the glory of Christ incarnate. Yet we are also told that he carried no comeliness or reputation. He was not desireable. He was simply born to a virgin, jr. high girl in a donkey trough. He grew us in a small farm town and worked with his step-dad hammering nails. So where's the glory? John is careful to revolutionize our perspective by saying that this Light shines forth not because he fits the glory of a cultural icon, but because he was full of 'grace and truth'. He was and is the antithesis of cultural nobility. His glory was that of grace and truth.
Read the Gospels and look for grace and truth. What you will find is that you need to read and reread because at first sight his grace and truth are always misunderstood by feeble minds; minds that are not only finite but sinfully unaware, disinterested and unable to comprehend the infinite riches of the glory of Christ. It is by the sending of Christ's Spirit, who serves our feeble minds with the glories of Christ, that we might attain such an understanding.