GLORY

Colossians 3:1-4 (KJV)
“1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
This is not vain glory; this lends to being changed from glory to glory until we are in glory. We are in an already not yet tension with Jesus. As large as the heavens are (the universe) makes me wonder why we are on this tiny dust ball in comparison to the massive space it sets in. Since I was a child I have had the tendency to stare up into space when talking to God; it is as though He is somewhere way out there and I way down here.
Somewhere in the midst of all this space is where my affections are supposed to be; affection upon things I cannot see, touch, or handle from where I stand. Such glory is beyond us. We all have sinned and have fallen short of His glory. Catching glimpses of Jesus, understanding Him in ways it transforms us is where this glory rest; transformation in the ways we do life.
We go to church to try and figure out how to be the church; well, it is setting our affections on things above, it in this transformational glory we become the church. These transformations will continue to be until we appear with Him in glory. -Be transformed-