Memories of “Hiding”
Many years ago I was privileged to be in the film “The Hiding Place”. Every effort and expense were focused on the event of its premier in California. The Christian community was praying that this opening’s publicity would introduce the film to the general public. We settled into the auditorium. Suddenly, a little crackle of sound in front of the theater, people moved to the aisles, puffs of smoke flowed quickly! Someone intent on stopping that movie had thrown a bomb into the packed theater; a bomb marked with a swastika and filled with deadly gases. The crowd emptied onto the street, sirens preceded the fire engines, the ill were rushed to hospitals. Dr. Graham told us the premiere, so costly and so well intended, would be canceled! Plans prayed for and programmed were dismissed. God’s movie would lose its one sure chance for making itself known. We had lost! Except for one little thing; as we walked away from that darkened theater, we saw the mobile units of the media. They were coming to cover the bombing and, starting with the next morning’s news, our film that had struggled to get any kind of coverage, was on every morning, noon and evening news show! God is the Divine Transformer! What evil meant for destruction, God used for good! Let Him do that in your life today. Give Him the dilemma, the action taken against you, His child, and watch Him work.



