NIV 365 / Here I Am to Worship

The NIV 365-Day Devotional Reading Plan

Day 154 of 365 Here I Am to Worship Tim Hughes Light of the World, you stepped down into darkness Opened my eyes, let me see Beauty that made this heart adore you Hope of a life spent with you. Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down Here I am to say that you're my God You're altogether lovely, altogether worthy Altogether wonderful to me King of all days, oh so highly exalted Glorious in heaven above Humbly you came to the Earth you created All for love's sake became poor And I'll never know how much it cost To see my sin upon that cross I'll never know how much it cost To see my sin upon that cross I'll never know how much it cost To see my sin upon that cross I'll never know how much it cost To see my sin upon that cross Behind the Song Seemingly simple in lyric and melody, "Here I Am to Worship" was an exercise in patience and reflection for writer Tim Hughes. "During that time I had been thinking about and meditating on the cross," he says. "I began to concentrate on Philippians 2, about Christ's humility and how he became obedient to the point of death on a cross. I was challenged with the wonder of his sacrifice for us." The verses came fairly easily to Hughes, but the chorus was another story entirely. "The original one was embarrassingly bad," he admits. It took another six months before he felt prepared to write the final chorus. "I began to ask, 'How are we going to respond to Christ's great sacrifice on the cross?' Do we bow down? Do we scream out? Sometimes we don't know how to respond, even though we desperately want to." Selah Taken from NIV Worship Together Bible Philippians 2:8 Philippians 2:8 KJV 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.