"What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building."
When people elevate a spiritual leader, it is often because of the influential role that the person has played in their lives. When people pour themselves into our lives, it is right for us to be thankful, but we must recognize that the people that God chooses to use are not the ones accomplishing the spiritual good in our lives. They are being used to accomplish the good, but they are not accomplishing the good. God is the only one who can accomplish anything of spiritual value in our lives.
Those who are working for the Lord will be rewarded by Him. But they are only workers. They must not be lifted to a place of superiority over other believers. Neither should they be lifted to a position of superiority over each other. If one person witnessed to me, one person was a consistent testimony for Christ before me, and another person finally lead me to Christ, no worker is better than the other for it. They are all fellow workers. All were used by God, and God was the one who really accomplished the work.
I should delight in serving God no matter what role He has me play. And I must not divisively elevate people to a position that they do not deserve. God is the one doing great things in my life.
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