The human heart is a beautiful and intricate design.

That's because we were created in the image of God.

As a human, you are sacred to God in ways that are true of no other life form.

This means there are elements of God's character that have been implanted within us.

God has mind, will, emotions. Humans have mind, will, emotions.
God's qualities are unlimited and infinite. Ours are limited and finite.

God gave you power, but only God is all-powerful
God gave you knowledge, but only God is all-knowing.

God gave you sovereignty, the right to rule in your dominion, but only God is all-sovereign.

You are a sacred being, created in the image of God.

Part of this image of God is a hunger for God himself. You were made for things greater than anything this world can give. Wise old King Solomon realized this when he said, God has "put eternity in our hearts" (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

You were created with an instinctive longing for the infinite, the eternal, the transcendent, the realm beyond this realm. It's a craving. A homing instinct. Augustine said, "You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee."

Another part of being made in the image of God is the drive to make your mark on the world. To build, to create, to innovate. You were made for Ambition and to go beyond the ordinary.

That fire in your belly to achieve something great? That is from God. That is Holy Ambition.

We can see this ambition play out on a global scale. Look at a figure like Elon Musk. He is building rockets to go to Mars. He is re-engineering transportation. It is a breathtaking display of human ingenuity and drive. His life purpose is to make life interplanetary.

But if you look closely at the story of humanity—from emperors to the modern titans of industry—you see a dark side to the story of Ambition.

No matter how vast the empire, it's never enough.

That's because the human heart was not just designed to build on the horizontal realm of this space-time continuum. It was designed to connect to the vertical reality of heavenly realms.

Your heart is wired to touch the miraculous, supernatural,, transcendent realities of heaven.

This is not as complicated as it sounds.

Sir Christopher Wren
There's a story about Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. He walked onto the construction site of that glorious cathedral. He asked three different bricklayers the same question: 'What are you doing?'

The first bricklayer said, 'I'm laying bricks.'
The second said, 'I'm building a wall.'

But the third one looked up with a fire in his eyes and said, 'I am building a cathedral to Almighty God!'

All three were doing the same work. But only one had connected his ambition to a realm above this realm. He did this by awareness. By intention. By choice. It's not as complicated as it sounds.

He wasn't just building something for this world. He was building a bridge to the invisible transcendent realm of heaven.

A famous mystic named Brother Lawrence wrote, "I flip my omelette in the pan for the love of God."

And that brings us to the man Jesus talks about in Luke 12.

Let's be clear about this man. He was not lazy. He was not without ambition. He was, by every worldly standard, a genius. He was a master of his craft, a visionary who saw a problem—too much harvest, not enough storage—and engineered a solution. He was the most successful person in his region.

So why did God call him a fool?

He was a fool because he failed to answer the two most important question a person can answer.

The first most important question is "Are you saved?" Are you born again such that you have created that supernatural connection where you can say God is my father, Christ is my Savior, and the Spirit is my helper, and heaven is my home. Are you saved?

The second most important is "What cathedral are you building?" Everybody's building something. Everybody's building a cathedral dedicated to the glory of somebody or something.

Christian... what cathedral are YOU building?
Because here was a man who forgot what he was building for.

He took a heart designed for an otherworldly cathedral to a transcendent God and tried to satisfy that heart with a cathedral to himself.

And I have to believe that deep inside his soul was a spirit crying out, "Somebody help me, I'm trapped in a success factory!!"

I'm trapped in an image factory. I'm trapped in a money factory. I'm trapped in a self-pity factory. I'm trapped in a vengeance factory.

It was all about 'my crops, my goods, my barns.' His life stopped at the edge of his own skin. He had everything, but he was missing love. And was missing a connection to the transcendent eternal realm and the God of love who created him.

He was building a cathedral to himself.

We're going to see that in the end this becomes the most devastating mistake a person can make.

I want to explain why.

At Pathway Church, we have been very intentional to build a Cathedral to Almighty God. We do that through the proclamation of the Gospel of Grace, the preaching of the Word of God, and the power of the Spirit of God.

We believe that the days are short. So we're going to double down by launching a new initiative. It's called The Harbor and The Horizon.

And I'm going to preach three sermons on this series.

My promise to you is this: We are going to connect your deepest ambition to transcendence. I'm inviting you to stop just laying bricks and to start building a cathedral to the one thing that matters, which is the one thing that will give you more joy, more love, more peace, and more wholeness than anything else you've ever tried.

So that whether you're flipping an omelette, flipping a house, changing your baby's diaper, tuning an engine, scrubbing a toilet, sharing the gospel, praying, serving, giving, teaching a classroom, or extracting a tooth... you are doing it because of the love of God poured out on you by the grace of Jesus Christ.