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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