Songfacts®:

• The Red Clay Strays paid their dues playing gritty clubs across the Southeast, scraping by on $125 per gig - hardly enough to keep body and soul together, let alone keep the kids in peanut butter. But they pressed on, fueled by little more than a stubborn passion for music and the occasional meal that wasn't entirely paid for in loose change.
  
  "God Does," written by band member Drew Nix, is a heart-on-sleeve reflection on finding strength in faith when life seems hell-bent on knocking you down.
• The song couldn't have come at a better moment for The Red Clay Strays, offering hope when they were struggling to make their music career work.
  
  "Even in late 2021 we were still broke, finding it really hard to be optimistic," lead singer Brandon Coleman told Mojo magazine. "Then Drew showed me the song God Does. I remember listening in the car and trying not to break down crying. You might not have a solution to whatever's worrying you, but God does."
• "God Does" is the closing track on Made By These Moments, The Red Clay Strays' first album for RCA. Dave Cobb produced the record at his Riverside Home Studio in Savannah, Georgia, the group fishing off the pier between takes. "The studio used to freak me out," Coleman told Mojo, "but Dave made everything so easy, so fun."
• Cobb's production on "God Does" wraps the song in warm, acoustic instrumentation, calling to mind a Creedence Clearwater Revival spirit, complete with harmonica flourishes.