Know Your Opponent

Know Your Opponent: now Your Opponent by Kenneth M. Orel By examining the biblical description of Satan and patterns in your life—you CAN overcome sin. I can still remember Room 101. That high school biology classroom reeked of formaldehyde, a constant reminder of chemically preserved frogs that were dissected by students. Room 101 served another purpose during the fall football season. My team spent many hours sitting in there with shades drawn watching game tape of opposing teams on a rickety projector. We would always study the opponent we would go to battle with the next game. No team was invincible, we were taught, so what could we discover on those 8-millimeter film rolls to secure an advantage against our next foe? In competitive sports, studying game tape of your opponent can reveal their favorite plays and, more important, their weaknesses. Knowing and exploiting your challenger’s deficiencies is crucial to winning any contest. Our coach demanded a lot from us. He made sure we studied who we would be individually going up against: “If you know what he will do before he does it, you gain the advantage. Study him!” Yet studying our own game footage also exposed our weaknesses. Painful mem