Can anyone keep the law of God perfectly?
Since the fall, no mere human has been able to keep the law of God perfectly, but consistently breaks it in thought, word, and deed.
(New City Catechism)
All this being said –
the neighbour languishes
where thieves
and Levites have left him.
The Samaritan shames
the priests, the sons of David.
Yet even his heart
turns the wrong way to worship.
The eyes of righteousness
scan all of earth’s children.
The straightest human heart
is too crooked to reach heaven.
Jericho’s road, ridden
with bumps and threats
takes the best among us
and casts us to its side.
But look: one comes
like a Son of Man.
He makes only level paths
and follows with ready feet…
The Consolations of Writing 