President Bill Clinton wrote a novel titled The President is Missing. The promotion tours and the interviews have been giving him a lot of hiccups. When asked about whether he would apologize to Monica Lewinsky in the aftermath of MeToo movement, President Clinton said, ‘No’.
A generation of men and women was lured into fornication and adultery by Clinton’s example in the White House. Yet he was more concerned about his debt than the moral damage. He complained, “I left the White House $16 million in debt”. A 22 year-old girl’s life was permanently maligned because of what he did to her during his presidency, yet, he is more concerned about his debt.
Rather than showing repentance, he tried to justify his actions.
They did it too: “Do you think President Kennedy should have resigned?”. “Do you believe President Johnson should have resigned?”
People accepted it: “Two-thirds of the American people sided with me”
When David lusted after Bathsheba, brought her into his palace, slept with her, got her husband killed in the war, God sent his prophet Nathan confront him. David confessed his sin and repented. David did not say, ‘every one is doing it’ or ‘two-thirds of Israelis sided with me’.
Instead of repenting our sins, we often try to explain away our sins using defenses like ‘they did it too’, ‘most people are with me on this’.
Let us pray that God will give a true heart of repentance to President Clinton.