I Can't Find It

Ok, this is so not intended to be offensive--which means, I know it will probably offend someone.

Here's a question for you: what do you with those emails that come and basically tell you that if you want God to do something in your life be sure to forward this email to five to twenty of your friends in the next half hour? Pass on these angel kisses. If you love your country or our military personal then you pray the enclosed prayer and pass it along because you're just not American if you hit delete.

I am patriotic. I do pray for our troops. But I didn't do chain letters back in the day when we licked envelopes and stamps! What troubles me is that there's somebody out there trying to say that by sending a specific number of email forwards we can convince God to make something wonderful happen in our lives. Am I alone in this?

This kind of thinking, believing--this theology just doesn't seem to jive with what I find in the Word. Yes, we are to ask, seek, and knock--and there is the element of persistence in that. Yes, we have not because we ask not. Yes, we are to come before the throne with confidence and boldness. But emails? Forwards? I just can't find it...