God is immutable

God is immutable – how could he retreat from our insistence and change our eternal burdens?
Origenes is already trying to answer this objection at the beginning of his book of prayer. He points out that all the trouble comes from the fact that we pass on to God our way of human thinking in the categories of time. In the rhythm of our life, first one event, then the second follows. But God is out any time. There is everything in him about the eternal view present – both our request and its hearing. He so nothing changes when he hears us. And if he objects then someone that, assuming that God has decided everything from eternity, our prayers are illusory. Origenes corresponds with a nice example: God from eternity decides on the arrival of individual people into the world
and their vocation. Yet, our parents are the real cause of our existence on earth. Similarly, continues by the same author, our prayers are like fathers and the mothers of events that take place in this world.

The same problem is presented humorously in the famous book about Don Camilo. He reportedly heard from Jesus explains: ‘You go carelessly, you cross the dormitory, you stumble and fall on the sleeper. You hear him coming by train. You say a prayer quickly, asking for the train to leave for a college other than the one where you fell. And indeed, so it happens. Then you thank the Lord for hearing you. But how he could hear you when the train left the station, and he couldn’t dodge another college? ” Don Camilo can’t answer but hears Jesus’ explanation: “Before the train came out, I saw your fall, and I heard your prayer, so I arranged everything to make your prayer she was heard, and the timetable was not disrupted. “Here we hear a folk explanation of what Origenes explains metaphysically. However, Berdyaev’s disciple, S. L. Frank, concludes from these considerations even deeper conclusions – because so ours The message for today prayers enter into eternity and become one with God’s eternal decisions, we can say that the voice of our prayers to Heavenly Father was already heard on the beginning of the creation of the universe at the same time as the word of the Creator. And because God created the world at the same time as us, we participate in his work. This conclusion corresponds to what we really believe in. God the Father creates and preserves the world through the Son. Christians who are one with Christ participate in this work. So we can apply to ourselves what in the parable of the prodigal a father tells his older son, “Child, you are always with me and all that is mine is yours “(Lk 15, 31). And God has life, love, and doing good. On we share this as sons in the Son.