David N. Heizer, a devout atheist for 42 years came to Christ at a pivotal time in his life. During his 10 year faith journey God placed a life changing equation on his heart to help him along the way. David, is a graduate from Mount Saint Joseph High School and Towson State University and has spent most of his adult life in the financial and insurance industries. His love for God and family and his deep desire to share the Gospel have been the driving forces behind his writing this book.
God placed on David’s heart a mathematical equation to express Faith. Christian Faith specifically. Join David in exploring how this simple equation can help the reader reaffirm their faith every day and work through the daily struggles of life. This book will also illustrate how this equation can be used to disciple others. By sharing this simple mathematical equation with others the reader can share their faith with an easy to understand illustration that clearly illustrates the foundational power of God’s Love for basing the principles on which to build our lives.
Why express Christian Faith Mathematically? 1st, math is a universal language. The concept of 1+1=2 is the same for all people regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or language. 1+1=2 is universally understood. 2nd, Mathematics is the language of God. Everything we see in the visible universe can be expressed mathematically. God spoke the very fabric of the universe into existence by weaving it together with threads spun from the wool of all the mathematical disciplines.
So let’s look at the equation. F equals Trust times God’s Love Cubed. F represents the term for Faith which is what we will be solving for since Faith is the foundation on which we establish our principles to live by. T represents the term Trust and is the variable in this equation because Trust is the basis of belief. Trust in anything tends to vary from one moment to the next or one day to the next in response to our ever changing circumstances. L3 represents the Triune love of God and is the constant term for the equation. God’s Love is constant, infinite, unwavering, and limitless. God’s Love is the sturdiest of foundations to establish our Trust in. It is the rock.
Faith plays such a vital role in the development of the principles we live our lives by, it is very important to make sure what we are placing our trust in is in fact true and is the ultimate truth. How do we know God’s love is the ultimate truth? The answer is right in front of us. Love is the ultimate expression of truth. We all know this to be true and we all know it intuitively. Think of your own love. Do you love your children? Of course you do. So ask yourself, how true is your love for your children? If you are like me it is very true. Nothing could be truer. How about our spouse or significant other? Do we love them “but not really?” Of course not. You love them and you know it to be true.
Since we know Love is true we also understand that true love is sacrificial. As parents we sacrifice so much for the love of our children. As husbands and wives we sacrifice so much for our spouse. Most people would even lay down their lives for their kids or spouse. God’s love is True love because he did just that. He came to earth in the form of His only Son and He died on the cross so we all may live. This is why I can accept Jesus as my savior. Because the gospel is rooted in God’s True sacrificial love for me, It is rooted in Truth and my Faith is a product of that truth. It ALL hinges on God’s Love for us. Without God’s love, perhaps creation never happens. Without God’s Love mankind would never be pursued and Jesus would never have come to save us. It is all a product of God’s Love for you and me.
The written word of God, the Bible is the authority by which we know that God loves us. The Bible is all about God’s Love for us. The Bible is rooted in love and therefore rooted in truth since love is the ultimate expression of truth. One of the unique features of this love story is the object of God’s Love in the Bible is you and me, the readers. We are the object of the love being expressed. In most love stories the object of a character’s love is another character in the story. The bible is just too brutally honest and transparent to be false. The Bible reveals lying, cheating, lust, adultery, murder, violence and repeated failure. If early Christians wanted to contrive a wild story just to get people to follow them, don’t you think they would have painted a prettier picture? A picture that would be easier to accept?
This equation can help us share our faith and even disciple others. F=TL3 is simple to understand and easy to explain. The more Trust we place in God’s Triune Love the stronger our Faith in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit becomes.
Replace L3 God’s Triune Love with any other term and Faith as a foundation on which to build our principles breaks down and ultimately fails. Placing money in the equation as the constant term just doesn’t work. F=T$ would represent placing all our trust in the pursuit of money. The value of the dollar fluctuates daily on the currency exchanges. Portfolio values fluctuate daily on the stock markets. Money loses its value over time due to inflation. Your bank account never has the same amount in it from one day to the next. There is nothing constant about money. There are so many factors that affect the pursuit of money that we just can’t control. Money is finite doesn’t represent truth in any way. Money is a poor foundation on which to build your fundamental principles. Money tears families apart and ruins friendships. The pursuit of money can and usually does lead to worry, anxiety, and fear. Money is not the Rock on which to build your Faith.
You can do the same exercise with power, beauty, sex, drugs, and even one’s self. Placing all your trust in yourself is dangerous. We are all imperfect, broken people that make a lot of mistakes throughout life. Misunderstandings and misinterpretations are at the core of being human. These lead to making poor judgments and poor decisions.
Placing all our trust in anything but God’s Love will lead to anxiety, fear, uncertainty, depression and loneliness because all material things are easily lost and corruptible. Since all these other things are just finite, temporary worldly materials they don’t follow you beyond the grave. But God’s Love does. It is the only thing that transcends life and death and will be the only thing you take with you into heaven.
You can read more about David and this life transforming equation F=TL3 in his book One Simple Equation. Available in hard cover, paperback, Nook, Kindle on Amazon and all online book retailers.