What A Friend (Medley)

Jordan Smith strings four separate hymns together here, and the seams barely show because each one is answering a version of the same need. "What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear" opens with companionship in suffering before the medley ever gets to celebration.

"Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus" follows immediately, turning friendship into something closer to reliance — "just to rest upon His promise, just to know thus sayeth the Lord." Trust, not just comfort, is what the second hymn adds to the first.

The medley's pivot into "Amazing Grace" — "I was lost until you found me, I was blind but now I see" — shifts the whole piece from ongoing friendship to a specific rescue already accomplished, before closing with "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," pointing past the present entirely toward "a home that's waitin' for me in the sky." Jesus' own words calling his disciples friends rather than servants, and Paul's instruction to bring everything to God in prayer instead of carrying it alone, sit behind a medley that moves from friendship to grace to a promised home in four hymns instead of one.