one more person...

I don't know if you've seen the film, "Schindler's List". Well, it's set during the holocaust. Oskar Schindler is the main character (played by Liam Neeson). He is an entrepreneur, who is only out to make a lot of money and have fun in the process. He is a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party. He isn't always totally honest. He is a womaniser. He is lots of things that would make him an unlikely hero.

He discovers that WWII is actually good for business. He hires lots of Jews as cheap labour to make pots and crockery and stuff for military use. He becomes successful and rich as the war continues - as does the holocaust. Eventually, he starts to become aware of the realities. People are dying.

Finally, the Nazis try to send some of his Jewish workforce to the gas chambers. He then decides to invest his own money in buying their freedom. To his Jewish assistant's amazement, Schindler's List of Jews to be saved contains children and people who would be of little use to him in his factory. But he buys them out anyway.

So, with 1100 or so Jews, he moves to a new factory. But the war is over. So he will be hunted as a war criminal and must flee. He has freed his Jews. As he goes to his car to leave, all of his Jews surround him. They have given him a gold ring, inscribed, "He who saves one life saves the world entire."

Schindler breaks down and weeps. If only, he cries... If only I hadn't blown so much money on my own selfish lifestyle. If only I had sold this suit I'm wearing. I could have bought one more. Or the car. That might have bought me 2 more people. My watch. One more person...

The Jews try to console him. 1100 are alive who would be dead if not for him.

But I guess it's scant consolation.

And I am always deeply moved in spirit when I see this or think about this. One more person. I don't want to reach my death bed and feel that way. One more for Jesus, if only I had... One more person might have been saved, if I'd just...