THE ENVY OF EVE
Finding contentment in a covetous world
By Melissa B. Kruger. Christian Focus. 254 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 1 845 507 756
This book brings a helpful consideration of a theme that is so relevant to the age we live in. As Kruger says of the sin of coveting: ‘It is like the drop of water that can find its way into the tiny crack of a rock. Once it freezes, it can cause a fissure that damages the rock and splits it to the core’.
She shows how it is not having desires that is the problem, rather it’s not having the right desires in the right way. Yet we live in a culture that constantly bombards us with messages telling us that if only we have this possession, this relationship, that success, then we will be satisfied — the truth is that once we have attained what we desire, we are fired with an even greater desire to possess more. Covetousness also spoils our relationships with those who have something that we desire.
