This is one of those examples of when we need to just read the bible plainly and do it. A woman’s long hair is her glory and a covering for her. When she cuts it off, she loses her glory, and she loses her God given covering. It’s as simple as that.

The penultimate line of the Doxology couples nicely with the preceding line to expand the worship of God from the earth below into the heavens above.

I don’t think it is possible to have a genuine relationship with someone without eventually conversing about suffering and sharing the ways that you have suffered in this life. We all suffer.

As service came to a close this Lord’s day, we sang Psalm 135B and it was a glorious time indeed! Before the congregation took up their Psalters to teach and admonish one another with the word of God, our pastor made a warming point from this psalm. We were told of the permanence, the ubiquity, the eternal nature of God's name. His name - and not our own - is the name that will permeate throughout time eternal and will transcend this age. It will be sung in the age to come! What an absolutely glorious thought!