Brittany Lynn Lutz: Don’t Hide From the Role God Cast You In
By Movieguide® Contributor
In one of her recent YouTube videos, Brittany Lynn Lutz, influencer and wife of TWILIGHT actor Kellan Lutz, encouraged her audience to strive to live out God’s calling in their lives.
“If God is the director of this movie, of the story,” Lutz said, using the metaphor as one’s life as a movie, “and he is on set in the director’s chair, and you are cast as the leading lady of a story, he wants to tell through you that will bring people closer to him, that will be fulfilling for you, that will bring joy and hope…and no one’s there. The leading lady isn’t there. You’re not there…I want to ask you are you hiding? Are you hiding from the story that God wants to tell through you?”
Lutz says that God has already prepared the believer for whatever “role,” whether in ministry, family or career, and to not become “paralyzed in our dressing room.”
“I just want to encourage anyone who knows what you’re supposed to do—start the podcast, start the blog, start the YouTube channel, whatever it is that you’re supposed to do, and maybe it’s preaching the gospel, maybe it’s sharing your testimony,” Lutz implored.
“Whatever it is, only you know what it is. You have to show up and take that step of faith and just do it, and he’s with you every step of the way. And he’s gonna lead you and guide you,” she said.
Her conviction comes from overcoming her own insecurities.
“I’m speaking to the people who once were where I was, where I just felt so inadequate. I didn’t feel worthy; I didn’t feel valuable,” the 37-year-old said. “Like ‘What can God use me for? I’m just gonna hide over here.’ And God’s like ‘Brittany, I’m calling you.’”
She reminded her followers that there is always free will but encouraged them to not miss out on the unique purpose he has for their lives.
“[T]he other thing is, if we refuse, if we don’t show up, he’s still God, and his mission and his vision will still prevail. If we decide we were opting out and we don’t want a part of it, He will pick someone else,” Lutz said.
Lutz shared her life verse Jeremiah 29:11-13 as further encouragement to seek the Lord’s will in their lives. The verse reads:
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
The verse is not only a promise, as she points out to her followers.
“[P]lease don’t forget 12 and 13 because this is where our call to action is. So that verse 11 can be manifest in our life,” Lutz said. “So when you go to God and you say, ‘I know you have plans for me.’ And that’s where it ends. Okay, how are you going to know what the plans God has for you are unless you go, and you seek Him? And you talk to Him and you pray to Him.”
She added, “So my encouragement to you is pray, get with God. And it says ‘and then you will seek me and find me’ when you search for Him with all your heart.”
Along with her YouTube, Lutz often shares about faith and family on Instagram. Recently she posted an inspirational quote about motherhood from Emily Jensen.
“‘If we want to enjoy motherhood more, we actually need to enjoy Christ more. There isn’t life in motherhood’” the mother of two captioned with a video of her and son Kasen and daughter Ashtyn playing on a trampoline. “‘There’s life in Christ and that overflows in our motherhood.’”
“When I feel like I’m struggling in motherhood, I’m losing patience, I feel overstimulated, I’m extra tired, I’m managing a household over enjoying my kids, it always directly correlates to how much time I’ve spent with Jesus,” Lutz added to the post.“He fills me up so that I’m able to pour out and ENJOY motherhood to the fullest.”
Movieguide® recently reported on how the influencer leans on God through the ups and downs of life and how it leads to spiritual growth:
Lately I find myself in the tension between grief and gratitude,” she wrote in a recent Instagram caption. “That narrow space where you give yourself permission to grieve the things that were, that are, that have happened, that haven’t happened, that didn’t happen yet, those expectations that weren’t met, that life you envisioned that you realize you may never get to live… while on the other side choosing to press into the gratitude of what is. Here. Now. Because there truly is so much to be grateful for.”
Lutz explained that it’s been “challenging” for her to handle the emotions that come along with grief but pointed to a quote that’s been helping her—“Emotions are great consultants, terrible CEOs.”
“Emotions are important. They have their place,” she continued. “They give us insight into people and situations. They are there to protect us. God created emotions. But they do not have the full picture. They should never be in the driver’s seat. Emotions never take us anywhere good when left behind the wheel for too long!”
Lutz concluded that “a big part of maturing spiritually in this season is taking those emotions and real feelings and rather than diving head first and indulging them without boundaries, rather bringing them to the feet of Jesus and asking Him to help me process, navigate, heal, and move forward. Because the *only* one who can see the full picture is Him. I want Jesus, who is the Truth, navigating my life. Not my emotions and feelings that have a bad habit of lying to me.”
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