“Here I Am to Worship”
Tim Hughes
Philippians 2:6-8
Sing it. It is quoting nothing, and what it says of Christ's descent is what the passage says. Then read verse 5, where Paul introduces the descent as a mind you are told to have.✓ The second verse keeps the passage's direction and order: exalted and glorious first, then humbly to earth, then poor
⚠ The passage's descent ends at death on a cross in one sentence. The song's descent ends at poverty, and the cross appears separately in the bridge, so the single downward line is split
