It was an unimaginable horror.īut God had an amazing plan for one of the captured Indians, a boy named Squanto. When the trusting Wampanoag Indians came out to trade, the traders took them, imprisoned them, transported them to Spain, and sold them into slavery. Historical accounts of Squanto’s life vary, but historians believe that around 1608, more than a decade before the Pilgrims arrived, a group of English traders sailed to what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. I’m talking about the amazing story of how God used an Indian named Squanto as a special instrument of His providence. No, I’m not talking about some revisionist, politically correct version of history. But how many of us know the Indian viewpoint? Most of us know the story of the first Thanksgiving at least we know the Pilgrim version. Years ago, on Thanksgiving, Chuck Colson told a story in a BreakPoint commentary. That’s a long way to introduce today, Thanksgiving, but it’s an important framework for understanding how God has moved and worked in human history. The history of the world is God’s redemptive history – that is, history can only be understood within the larger creative and redemptive work of God in Christ. In fact, there is no such thing as “secular” history. A Christian worldview not only points us to what is true, but it also places us, historically, within the redemptive history of God’s creation.
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