The text before us speaks about two kinds glory, first, it speaks about our present rejoicing or glorying in our tribulations, troubles and trials – count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations: second, the text also speaks of the joy of looking forward to the glory of God which shall be reveal in us at the coming and appearing of Jesus Christ – our hope of eternal glory (Colossians 1:27), and this joy unspeakable, full of glory, is the source of our strength and encouragement to bear and to endure the reproach of Christ with patience, while considering the present troubles and burdens experiences as part of our share in the suffering of Christ, that we may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God by which we suffered (2 Thessalonians 1:5), and may be glad with exceeding joy (beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:  but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.1 Peter 4:12-19) when we shall reign with him in his Father’s kingdom prepared for us before the foundation of the world to our glory: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:17. 2 Timothy 2:12.
The scripture speaks about the spirit of God’s glory that is resting upon the believer as the reason why he is going through spiritual challenges, confrontations and contradictions of sinners, for he must go through many tribulations (fight his way through to the end) to enter or inherit the kingdom of God. Acts14:22. There is a measure of the glory of God on believer’s life in whatever trouble, trial or problem he is going through as well as an increasing measure of God’s glory and comfort he qualifies to receive according to the increase of his sufferings in Christ (2 Corinthians 1:5): whatever is done to the green tree, shall likewise be done to the dry if they are not of the world. Luke 23:31.They must suffer for well doing (1Peter 3:17), suffer for righteousness sake (Matthew 5:10), suffer and hated for living the gospel – godly lifestyle (2 Timothy 3:12), suffer need in godliness with contentment which is a great gain of heaven (Philippians 4:12; 1 Timothy 6:6): suffer mockery, opposition, resistance, hatred and separation for being led by the spirit to do God’s will (Romans 8:14. 1 Peter 3:17): suffer for speaking the truth as the truth is in Christ Jesus without apology (Galatians 6:14): suffer for walking the old path of the narrow way and the straight gate; trembling to the word of God and contending for the faith once delivered unto saints (Isaiah 66:5): for you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face, if a man compel you to go a mile and you go with him two, if a man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, and you give him your cloak also. Matthew 5:40. 2 Corinthians 11:20.
The glory of God from the text before us is not the glory of his manifested presence (Exodus 40:35) or of his abiding presence which depart from Israel because of sin (1 Samuel 4:22), neither is it the physical manifestation of the miraculous power (John 2:11) and of the testimonies of the greatness of God’s wonders. Numbers14:22. The scripture text from 1 Samuel chapter 2 verses 7 -8: for he raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them only speaks of the goodness of God’s blessings on his children, and of which Joseph addressed his brothers in Genesis 45 verses 13: and ye shall tell my father of all my glory (splendour and magnificent) in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen is parallel to the word of the Lord from Matthew 6 verses 29 when he compares the glory of Solomon is all its splendour as nothing in comparison to the beauty and splendour of the grass of the field. When Moses the man of God speaks about the glory of the firstlings by revelation fromDeuteronomy 33:17, he speaks of the future financial rewards and blessings of tithing that shall come upon the generation of Joseph. There is no glory (celestial bliss – the felicity of heaven) whatsoever, but eternal destruction that is awaiting any child of God who’s after earthly things, and glorying or rejoicing in his shame, and whose god is his belly (Philippians 3:19), having been warned to desist from pursuing after those things; that he might set his affection, pursuit and goal on things above, and not on things on earth, where Christ is seated on the right hand of God, so that when Christ, who is his life shall appear, then shall he also appear with him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4. Believer is forbidden to glory or rejoice in riches, man, beauty, knowledge and wisdom other than in the God his glory, who is also the lifter up of his head: that his sole rejoicing and confidence should be on the cross of Christ Jesus through whom he is crucified to the world, and the world is crucified to him, lest by seeking after vain glory of the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things, he should become like the seed –heart sown among the thorns, but were wasted and choked to death.
The riches, power and terrestrial glory, blessings or splendor are all freely given us to be used for his glory and they shall rot away, and be eaten by worms, and destroys by fire; but the glory of God shall endure forever; therefore the glory is not in money, cars, houses or any material possession and inheritance, it could only be found inside the cup given us to drink by God in Christ Jesus in the fellowship of his suffering. We all pray that we may know Christ in the power of his resurrection, but how many of us are praying to know him in the true fellowship of his suffering – to share his suffering? Philippians 3:10. Are there not brethren among us who are falling away because of the afflictions and persecutions they‘re encountering because of the word of God? Therefore, let no man confound God’s present beauty and glory in the saints to any of the earthly beauty and glory (1Corinthians 15:40) because the glory of God in his elects (a) is the fullness of the fruits of righteousness (not in the fruit of sin unto unrighteousness and death which can make the glory to depart) which are by Christ Jesus unto the glory and praise of God (Philippians 1:11): (b) the present glory of God in his saints is also is in the increasing growth and manifestations of the beauty of his image and likeness (Exodus 33:18) seen through believer’s daily walk in his increasing transformation into the conformity to Christ death and through his daily walk in the new creation or newness of life in Christ Jesus (but we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 2:18. (C) That the saints are called unto glory and virtue, and their present glory in Christ Jesus is found in measure of their incorruptible lifestyles, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lusts. It could as well be found in their increasing faith, virtue, godliness, temperance, self-control, brotherly –kindness, faith, goodness and meekness: the measure or degree to which they are diligent to these things determines the degree of the glory of God they can display or manifest in the temple of God whom they are. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
When Joseph was put into prison because he chose to flee from the sin of adultery with his master’s wife, it was the spirit of God and of glory which has rested upon him. For you suffer if you die daily to the flesh, for you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Contrary to the notion and the lies of the new generation churches and prosperity preachers, though the salvation is free, but the cost of it was the precious and priceless blood of Christ, and your price to pay to ensure your place is to follow after Christ example to endure (take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 5:10-11) any hardness or unexpected happenings with thanksgiving without murmuring or grudges, that the trials of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:7. Bearing the personal cross as Christ says is a must in the kingdom of God (Mark 8:34); but there is absolutely nothing soothing in the daily cross bearing (apart from the comfort and encouragement we receive from the comforter- holy spirit) than the denial or suffering of the flesh, just as Christ once suffered for us in the flesh, that we should no longer live the rest of our lives in the flesh to the lusts of men, but according to the will of God. To live and to walk daily in the spirit is a conscious spiritual labor in itself, considering that you must keep yielding to the spirit of God, so that by him, you can be able to subdue and put to death the works of the flesh to live. 1 Peter 4:1-2. Every honest heart and sincere worshipper of God in spirit and in truth must go through the trials of thorny place and stony ground but they shall overcome it because of their true love for Christ, whom having not seen, yet they love him and would not be afraid to suffer any loss or any pain according to his will for his name’s sake (but the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you. 1 Peter 5:10); for it is given unto us, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for his sake. Philippians 1:29. What about the reproach of Christ you are called upon to bear? But if you do not come out of the world, to separate from her styles, mentality, conformity, appearances, political correctness, even as Christ, that he might sanctify us with his own blood, suffered without the gate, how do you profess to be his when you supposed not to be part of the world, but you are of the world? How do you inherit the kingdom to come if you are presently living like the people of this world who are alienated from the life of God by the ignorance and blindness of their hearts? Where is the present glory of Christ repraoch on you, and where is the mark of Christ upon you, the present light affliction, which is but for a moment, operates for us and prepares us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal?  2 Corinthians 4: 7-18. Hebrews 13:12-14.