Commentary

Social Media Followers, be circumspect in personal issues

By Fred Antwi Boasiako, Social Commentator

The death of Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng, known in showbiz circles as Ebony died at age 20, and at the peak of her career attracted social commentators to attribute her ‘premature’ death to her ‘bad girl’ lifestyle. In fact, she became a topic for many Pastors and Counselors, who cautioned young people not to lead her kind of lifestyle because it was a sureway to an untimely death. Indeed, the late singer by her way of life could be deemed questionable. She wore skimpy dresses, tattooed her body, pierced some parts of her skin and mingled with people described as bad company.

Days ago on Friday April 15, news broke about the death of David Heward Mills, the first child of the Founder of Lighthouse Chapel International, Bishop Dag Heward Mills.

The deceased died at age 31, and many would agree his death is ‘premature’. David was a Medical Doctor who practiced in the United States of America, the home for the best health and medical facilities. Unlike Ebony, he was not known publicly for any secular or worldly lifestyle and, besides, his Father is an ArchBishop, who held one of the Biggest Good Friday Crusades for ‘Christ’ on exactly the day his beloved son died. Anyone who seeks to use any of these deaths to promulgate any form of ideologies and theories must be condemned outright.

Death is inevitable and just as one does not choose who, where, how and when they were born, the time to die also goes beyond human strength and power. It is the sole prerogative of God the giver of life and death. In fact, God can choose to call anyone at any time through any means like sickness, domestic abuse, car crush, war, floods, fire outbreak, and without question.

This is why it is unfair, and ungodly for anyone to suggest in their preaching that death at a prime is a sin. The savior of the world himself Jesus Christ died at age 33. Was Jesus a sinful person? The time to decipher between the will of God and the thoughts and imaginations of men is now. The sad part is that Christendom and persons who see themselves as servants of God are the ones trying to explain why and give reasons to what happens to people at what time of their lives.

The good book in Hebrews 9 verse 27 says it is appointed unto man to die. This verse says it all and reminds us that no matter who you are, death is a part of you whether young or old. Based on this, the propagandas’ of the gospel and the all-knowing social media speculators must seize trying to figure out why a child of God must die at a young age. What they should rather focus on is to remind us of the need to live godly lives so that we are accepted into eternity when the day of reckoning arrives. The Heward Mills family is going through a very difficult time as losing a son despite age or social standing is a very heartbreaking experience. We should not forget that Death is no respecter of persons and so if you are alive now, you are merely LUCKY, or, as Christians will say, FAVOURED.