The Crook in the Lot
Thomas Boston's tender exposition of Ecclesiastes 7:13 argues that every trial, disappointment, and 'crook' in a person's circumstances is deliberately shaped by God's sovereign hand and wisdom. Written out of Boston's own experience of pain and loss, it teaches believers to see affliction as God's work and to bear it with humble, faith-filled submission until He sees fit to make it straight.
Based on The Crook in the Lot (c. 1737), by Thomas Boston
Puritan quotes
Quotes by Thomas Boston
“Call on Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. The whole life of a Christian is a praying, waiting life.”
“As the light depends on the sun, or the shadow on the body that casts it, so we also depend on God; without Him, we can do nothing.”
“Trials wean us from this world and prompt us to look to the happiness of the next world.”
“So do men oftentimes find their greatest cross where they expected their greatest comfort.”
“The truth is, the crook in the lot is the great engine of Providence for making men appear in their true colours, discovering both their ill and their good.”
“Whatsoever crook there is in one's lot, it is of God's making.”
“It is He that has posted every one in their relations by His providence.”
“The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.”
“Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.”
“Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.”