Looking for a Savior

If you want proof that the world is looking for a savior, you need no more proof than what has happened this week. The events are ironic. You may think they are unrelated but I know God allows us to look at ourselves because He want us to understand ourselves better. He wants us to understand what we fear and what we want.

The week started out by the Obama Administration making a tough decision to dis-invite the Dalai Lama. That wasn’t easy. Previous Presidents for the past 18 years have welcomed him at the White House. President Obama’s team., hypersensitive to criticism from the Chinese chose not to.

Who is the Dalai Lama? He is a person who woke up one day as a child only to discover that everyone in his world looked to him for ultimate guidance. It must have been a shock. From then on, he was surrounded by people who would write down every utterance. How long did it take for him to realize the power that he wielded? How long did it take for him to understand the responsibility? His words are like spiritual light sabers. A careless word in an unintentional direction could change a life. To the Tibetan people, he is the connection to the source of life and its path to the future. His role is to illuminate the way.

The Dalai Lama is not chosen, he is anointed. When the previous one died, the faithful Tibetan Monks set about to search for the child on whom the anointing had fallen. It is interesting that in anticipation of that occurring again, the Chinese Government recently made a law that he cannot be born in China.

Just think of the responsibility one has to be the anointed one. It makes you wonder. Being anointed where every word you say is taken so seriously must be hard on you. But then being rejected by those who are not part of the faithful must get to be even harder on you.

Barack Obama rejected the Dalai Lama. Then he woke up and found that a Norwegian Panel gave him the Nobel Prize, not for what he has done, but for what they hope he is. It turns out that they have been pouring over the words he has spoken. Do his words have the weight of anointing? They recorded them and studied them. Is this the anointed one? Perhaps he is the one. Oh I am not criticizing President Obama here. I am pointing out that like the Tibetans, western civilization is just as earnestly looking for that anointed one.

I think Obama should have invited the Dalai Lama in. I think that behind closed doors the Dalai Lama could have had a good talk with him. It would have done President Obama good. The Dalai Lama could have given him his little smile and they could have agreed that the world is a desperate place. It definitely needs a savior. And they aren’t it. Then they should have pulled together the old band Ten Years After and had them address the press on the Rose Garden. 

"People of the world - Mr. Lama and I have something to share with you.  And we have decided to let Alvin Lee do it."