‘God Makes No Mistakes’

You may not know it, but Loretta Lynn is a pretty good theologian. She’s so good, in fact, that some contemporary theologians, open theists like Clark Pinnock, for example, could take some lessons in orthodoxy.

The lyrics to a song off her most recent record, Van Lear Rose, that illustrates her high view of God. Here are the words to “God Makes No Mistakes”:

Why, I’ve heard people say

Why is this tree bent

Why they don’t have God enough to know

That’s the way that it was meant

why is this little baby born

all twisted and out of shape

We’re not to question what he does

God makes no mistakes

Why I’ve heard people say

Why is my child blind

Why is that old drunk still livin

When a daddy like mine is dyin

our blessed father gives us life

has the power to take it away

There’s no reason for what he does

God makes no mistakes

Why I’ve heard people say

God cannot be alive

And all the things people say

Has to be a lie

When they’re down and out

And they need a hand

And their very souls at stake

If they’ll call on him and just believe

God makes no mistakes

Remind you of anything from the Bible? How about Job chapter 42:1-6 and its surrounding context (NIV):

Then Job replied to the LORD:

“I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.

You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”