Chuck Colson On Gov. Rod Blagojevich: I’ve Been There

In a CNN commentary, Chuck Colson gives a taste of his own fall from power due to similar misdeeds:

“I now realize that every human being has an infinite capacity for self-rationalization and self-delusion. Those who serve in public life are faced with enormous peer pressure and don’t always take time to stop and think carefully about what they’re doing.
Sometimes — absorbed in accumulating political power — they’re not interested in stopping to think. But as I learned firsthand, self-obsession destroys character. It has to.”

In the short article, Colson also recounts the night of his conversion, and explains:

“Pride is a spiritual cancer. And the only cure, for any of us, is to stop looking down and to look up. The cure can only be brought about in someone who has come to realize that the will and power to do good and not evil comes from God alone.”

Check it out.
(HT: Tullian Tchividjian)