Who's Your Jethro a.k.a. - Your Butt Kicker:

Now when many of you read that title you are probably think of maybe your modern day Jillian, Bob, Dovan from biggest loser, someone to get into your head and get you motivated to do the things to actually save your life.  Well that works....see Moses was killing himself trying to do it all, and called for help...and enters Jethro, his father in law.  In the book "The 11......" Leonard Sweet states in the chapter "Withness 3 Who's your Jethro? You need a Butt-Kicker"

"You grow up and don't have parents to kick you out of bed.  But you still need someone to kick you around when you're intellectually/morally/spiritually lazy, dumb and fat:"

Jethro’s Wise Advice

¹³ The next day, Moses took his seat to hear the people’s disputes against each other. They waited before him from morning till evening.

¹⁴ When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What are you really accomplishing here? Why are you trying to do all this alone while everyone stands around you from morning till evening?”
¹⁵ Moses replied, “Because the people come to me to get a ruling from God. ¹⁶ When a dispute arises, they come to me, and I am the one who settles the case between the quarreling parties. I inform the people of God’s decrees and give them his instructions.”
¹⁷ “This is not good!” Moses’ father-in-law exclaimed. ¹⁸ “You’re going to wear yourself out—and the people, too. This job is too heavy a burden for you to handle all by yourself. ¹⁹ Now listen to me, and let me give you a word of advice, and may God be with you.

See Jethro wasn't Jewish, and if you really scale this back you notice that Moses and the Israelites were IN THE WILDERNESS wandering around, and Jethro came from his home with Moses wife and kids.  HELLO - Moses's butt kicker wasn't in his religious community, nor was he wrapped up in their wandering.....BUT HE APPARENTLY HAD A RELATIONSHIP with GOD (he was a priest) to come and give Him Godly advice that would save him from an early heart attack.   Your Jethro maybe of a different denomination, they may not be, but what you have to be open to realizing is that YOU NEED THIS PERSON, often times we are so busy trying to be grown....we don't give somebody the authority of a NATHAN to correct us, or a JETHRO to tell us that we are DOING TOO MUCH, and or WE ARE DOING IT ALL WRONG!  See it's when you've done all that you can do, when you education and life experiences have been exhausted that this person is really really important because they offer a fresh GODLY perspective that can help get you over your wall.

CHALLENGE:  Identify your JETHRO or who are you a JETHRO to?  Listen to them...and if you don't have one....become open to the idea of the need for one, and just maybe he/she has been waiting for you to open up to allow them to bless you.   LGLP