Now, what does that come through? It comes through the Word of God. That is where the glory of the Lord is shown to us! Connect this with John 17. It is the Word of God that leads to our separation from the world. So we see the glory of the Lord.
The creation that is taking place in us is transforming us into the image of Christ. Or, another way of saying this is that we are being developed from the glory of the secular, material man into the heavenly, spiritual Christ.