Paul Lungu: “Because I went through rejection myself, I can easily understand the challenges others face.”

Throughout a life filled with struggles, Paul Lungu pondered the big questions of life.

“I often wondered what the meaning and purpose of my life was, I knew there should be more to life than just being born, growing up, going to school, getting a job, getting married, and then after that die,” Paul says.

Having no answer to these crucial questions, he remembers feeling “totally confused”.

Trying to alleviate his “woes”, which included rejection from his step-mother, Paul turned to “drinking heavily, smoking and lustful relationships”, and was also heavily influenced by peer pressure at school.

When he realised that his friends didn’t have the answers to his questions, he began reading a pocket-sized Bible he had. “My favourite book of the Bible was Psalms, it comforted me a lot,” Paul says.

Still searching for answers, he remembers walking around with two friends when they came across a preacher who “talked to me about the goodness of God.”

The preacher arranged to take Paul to church, where Paul says he heard that “God desires everyone to turn from their rebellion and be saved from their wickedness.”

Amazed that God had provided the answers he was looking for, Paul asked the preacher to explain a bit more.

After explaining in detail God’s plan of salvation (see the book of Romans), the preacher told Paul that all he had to do was admit to God that he has sinned against Him, and accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour.

Immediately, Paul asked Jesus to do this for him, and it changed his life in the best way possible.

“Before I accepted Jesus, I hated women and did not love my wife, but now I have the love of God and I am able to love my wife,” Paul explains.

Trusting in Jesus as his Saviour has also changed the way Paul feels.

“I had a spirit of rejection and would react to remarks that people said about me by withdrawing and feeling frustration. Jesus has helped me deal with this.”

Paul now believes that his experiences of rejection are enabling him to help others with the same difficulties.

“Because I went through rejection myself, I can easily understand the challenges others face and I know that through Jesus Christ I can be of help,” he says.

Paul is ever grateful that “in the midst of confusion, God came at the right time and saved my life.” He now knows the answer to his questions.

“In August 1980, I accepted Jesus as my personal Saviour, I have never looked back and I am serving Jesus Christ my Lord.”