Cause and Effect

This thought will be out of sequence because it just came to me.
St Thomas Aquinas is known for his idea of God as the first mover that is essentially the root cause of all existence. We live in a world bound by Law that we introduced when we asserted our independent will and lived by the Knowledge of Good and Evil; a world bound by cause and effect- what Paul also describes as the "elementary principles of the world". 

To live under Law is to be bound by the limit of material cause and effect that can never produce eternal life. We are incapable of either causing eternal life or being effected by God to respond in a manner that gains us eternal life. If by knowing Good and Evil we do the Good then we would be able to sustain ourselves eternally.  Likewise, to assert that if we respond to God according to Law we will be rewarded with eternal life is to affirm Adam and Eve's partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

What is the alternative? Is there an existence apart from cause and effect? I propose that God is not just the first mover, He is also the effect. Since we are unable to effect, by our response or deed, that which produces eternal life, only God may work what we are unable to work under law- what the Law is powerless to do He accomplishes.

If God is the cause and the effect He is the All-in-All, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. If He is the cause and the effect then there is no need for this paradigm and we may say: He is the I AM. He speaks the word and it is so. When we pray in the Spirit it will be given.

When we surrender the will we asserted in Eden we surrender the paradigm of cause and effect. We no longer are separate from Him but His will abides in us and also His life. We are no longer independent sovereign creatures but sons and daughters of God. We are as Jesus is. Christ's revelation of the Gospel was not something or some actions to be emulated but rather revealing what He is transforming us into. Christ surrendered at baptism; His was a surrendered life, at Calvary He surrendered His all to God and abided in the Father and the Spirit in Him. His resurrection is the revelation of the hope of the Gospel in which we now abide.