WHO IS 2FACE?

TWO - FACE

Were you hoping to see the 'Tubaba" you used to know? I mean the popular Nigerian Hip hop artiste by the name Innocent Idibia. Well, have you for once, thought about why he has chosen that stage name 'Tuface" or better still 2face... maybe you haven't. But let us consider who is really '2-FACE'.

When you say someone is 2face, what you are simply saying is that the person is of two different or opposite natures; however, a man is who he appears to be. Moreover, 2face has to do with the character of a person and character is what really defines who a man is and from that idea, it is right to use make examples from movie actors and actresses whom are regarded characters in their screenplays, as good examples of 2-face. You agree, majority of them are not, on the outside who they are in the movies they feature. You could imagine a character in a movie playing the role of a happy husband and father while in his 'real life' he is actually a divorced man - He is a good example of 2FACE.

Many of these people really lack integrity as we can see from the nature of the industry today and that's why the Greeks who developed drama could give the name 'hypokrites' to those who could play different roles at a time. This is the word from which we get the English word hypocrite. Similarly, the word hypocrisy comes from the Greek word hypokrisis, meaning "acting on the stage, pretense," from hypokrinesthai, meaning "play a part, pretend." Need to know also that in its original form,"hypocrite" was not a negative term; it merely referred to the actors who were mark on the stage while playing multiple parts. However, the term evolved into the idea of a person of "many faces"-someone whose real identity was not what it appeared to be.

In same vein, don't you consider the person in the picture above as 2face? These two pictures merged together were taken in the same year, even around the same season, over 10 years ago. On the left is a Bible school Certificate graduate while on the right is an upcoming tout- at the same period of time. Appearing before parents and siblings as a gentle, calm and responsible boy even with much knowledge of the scriptures, though without wisdom (right application of knowledge), while in the face of friends and mates as an arrogant, stubborn and useless boy toying with his future. He was just 2FACE.

Are you also a 2face or you don't even know if you are. Well, if you are, the day your two-face is exposed to the people, that day, you have lost your value before them and better to understand that ONLY Jesus Christ can help you fight addiction and it is better you lose face before man than before God. However, if you don't even know how people see you, do a simple evaluation by asking for sincere opinions of your personality from different sets of people who can at least, say one or two things about you but if you are not, You can also help any 2face you know by sharing with him/her. Dr. Myles Munroe once wrote, character is who you are on the inside while reputation is who you are on the outside. Are you actually trying to save your reputation at the detriment of your character? TIME TO RE-THINK!

Remember the words of Jesus, it is better to go to heaven with one eye than to go to hell where the whole body will be burnt. Matt 5:29.

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