Just as the Son receives from the Father the gloriousness of the divine life, so we through Christ become participants of that same divine life, and therefore, we share His glory (2 Peter 1:4; John 17:22). Glory is the full and outward expression of an inner excellence. I’ve defined glory to be the highest expression of a life. A flower is glorified when it is in full bloom. The inner excellence of the flower is the seed. In eternity, there was no visible, physical expression. But in the eyes of the Godhead, there was an expression as they beheld one another.