Charles Colson tells of viewing a tv interview with Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's confidant who after WWII was paralyzed with a deep sense of guilt for all the deaths he had been apart of. Speer was one of the few war criminals tried at Nuremberg to admit his guilt, for which he served 20 yrs in Spandau prison. In one of his books, he lamented that he would forever be seeking to atone for his sins. Commenting on this, Speer's interviewer asked him if it would ever be possible for him to be forgiven. Speer shook his head and said, I don't think it will be possible.
Colson remarks, I wanted to write Speer to tell him about Jesus and his death on the cross, about God's forgiveness. But there wasn't time. [That] interview was his last public statement; he died shortly after.
What Speer needed, and the blood of Christ provided is cleansing from his sin. The Apostle John states how the shed blood of Jesus answers this great need: If we walk in the light (faith in Jesus Christ) we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:7-9).
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