Who feels sorry for former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for what he did with Monica Lewinsky?  Not feel sorry for her, but for him?  I think all of you know he was actually a victim.  Did you know that?  In a recent interview, Bill Clinton was asked “why he took such a risk with his family, his marriage and his country.”  Clinton answered:

Because there, whatever life – not just me. Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever. . . . Things I did to manage my anxieties for years.

The real culprits, you can see, for the ruination of Monica Lewsinky, the devastation of her person, were those putting pressure on Bill Clinton.  He says he has a different way of managing it now, twenty years later.  It also might be that his physical desires have diminished with age.  That happens, as many know.  In other words, he hasn’t learned new management skills, even as he isn’t taking responsibility for all that he did.

People should understand that according to him Monica was a kind of therapy.  She was medicinal.  She was the tonic Clinton needed.  He was self-medicating.  He couldn’t get a doctor’s prescription.  If there is no doctor who will write one, then someone, like Clinton, must self. medicate.  Write out your own prescription.  One Monica Lewinsky, please.  One this girl or that girl and the next girl.  This was his cure for his mental health.

What about Monica Lewinsky?  What prescription does she need for what she caught from President Clinton?  And what will they need, those who provide her a prescription as a form of self-medication, for what complications they received?

Harry Truman said the buck stopped at his desk.  What is the buck?  The buck is poker term.  A buckhorn knife was used in American frontier days to mark the man whose turn it was to deal the cards.  If he didn’t want to deal, he could pass the buckhorn knife to someone else, which meant the person where the buck stopped would deal the cards.  Committing adultery isn’t self-medicating.  Saying it’s self-medication is a form of passing the buck, one that today receives sympathy from other millennials.  They “like” it.  They legitimize the so-called cause.  Like the excuse that the prophet Ezekiel wrote, ‘my parents ate grapes, so my teeth are crooked.’

Jeffrey Epstein could claim he was self-medicating with little girls he human trafficked.  Do you think he should get sympathy?  Why are we selective?  This is science, right?  I understand, Monica Lewinsky was a consenting adult, a young adult woman, albeit several decades younger than the President.  I contend she was the victim.  Young men prey on young women, feeling desperate for male attention, and those young men both defraud the young women and their parents.  Scripture says this.  However, she too should be ashamed of herself for being with a man who defrauds her and her parents.

A young man, who commits fornication, defrauds his future wife, if he ever does marry.  The woman may settle for being the twentieth special person or “crush” in his life, one in which he has developed for himself and these women he’s used, a pattern of divorce.  He says its just managing his anxieties.  No licensed doctor would or should allow this prescription.  This young man is not a doctor either, but he still self-medicates.  Actually, he uses women to gratify his lust.  Self-medication is an excuse to pass the buck.

In the dictionary, self-medication means:

the act or process of medicating oneself especially without the advice of a physician

Actual self-medication is with the advice of a physician, or using over-the-counter analgesics or allergy products.  That, is truly self-medicating.  The other is an excuse, unrepentant blame-shifting.

Self-medicators very often gravitate to other ones, like Lot moving himself and his family near Sodom.  Today it might be like moving to Las Vegas, Nashville, Hollywood, or New York City, near a lot of other “self-medicators.”  That’s the attraction.   Godly people, like Abraham, are not attracted to those places, not to live.  A missionary might go there, like Paul, because he sees it in need of saving. Self-medicators see one big pharmacy though.

No one manages his pressures and disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever — trauma, love apparently not received from parents, very often a lie.  Love from whomever though is a black hole to self pour medication.  It’s not even love.  It’s approval they want.  They want to continue as a drop dead drunk and keep getting acceptance.  No human being can provide enough love to fulfill another human being, shaped by expectation of acceptance and approval.  Fornication, drugs, and alcohol separate someone from the experience of God’s blessing.  They don’t provide any medication for the sin-sick soul.  It’s only Jesus Christ.  As Paul wrote, “Ye are complete in Him.”  Jesus Christ, however, is not good enough for the self-medicator, hence his continued prescriptions.

If you are self-medicating, stop.  Stop making excuses.  Leave other self-medicators.  Stay away from centers of self-medication:  whole cities, bars, clubs, churches that tolerate self-medication.  Stop trying to manage your anxieties.  If you have an advocate with the Father, sin not.  Your fornication and drunkenness is sin.

Above all, reject self-medication as a terminology.  It’s a lie.  You aren’t self-medicating.  You aren’t managing your anxieties.  You are sinning and it’s your fault.  You aren’t being hindered by dark memories of childhood trauma.  You are sinning against God, which sends you into a dark abyss from which there is no relief without repentance.  The excuse of self-medication is just more sinning, because it’s a lie.  It’s no way back to God the Father.