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How exactly is God an explanation for contingent things?

I cannot make any sense of the idea that God (a purely actual, necessary being) is the ultimate cause of all contingent things.  People who say this will hold to some PSR where any state of affairs that obtains must have a sufficient reason and (if we go down the chain of contingency far enough) that reason is ultimately always God.

But contingent things change and God doesn’t. So I’m left wondering how is God an explanation for the change of these things? God is currently just being God and I am alive. Sometime in the future, God will continue being God in exactly the same way yet I will be dead. So what ultimately happened that caused my contingent state of affair to change? This sort of causality where God causes one state of affairs at one point and then a different state of affairs at a different point, while being literally exactly the same in all ways at both points, makes no sense to me at all. And I certainly don’t see how it could count as a “sufficient reason” for the change that takes place.
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> This sort of causality where God causes one state of affairs at one point and then a different state of affairs at a different point, while being literally exactly the same in all ways at both points, makes no sense to me at all.

If you think this, then you're in good company with lots of theists who think that God is the explanatory cause but also think that God is *timeless*.  That is, it's not quite right to say God is doing something at time [x] and then something at time [y].  This makes it sound like time is passing for God, but if God is timeless, then this is all wrong.