We saw a bill board yesterday that showed a picture of babies in a treasure chest with the words: "God's stimulus package". How true! When in America did we begin to hate children? When did we decide to view children as a burden? When did we buy into the world's idea that there isn't enough room for us all so let's all stop taking dominion and bringing lives into the world?
We have our mindset turned backwards! And like the kings of Israel we do not do what is right in the sight of the Lord and worship the idol of state, i.e. the government will save us instead of God.

From II Chronicles 28 and 29...

Now in the time of his distress King Ahaz became increasingly unfaithful to the LORD. This is that King Ahaz. For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.

[King Ahaz's son]Hezekiah became king... and he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.
In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. Then he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them in the East Square, and said to them: “Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry out the rubbish from the holy place. For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God; they have forsaken Him, have turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him. They have also shut up the doors of the vestibule, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. Therefore the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has given them up to trouble, to desolation, and to jeering, as you see with your eyes. For indeed, because of this our fathers have fallen by the sword; and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity. “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us. 11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and that you should minister to Him and burn incense.”

Let us light the lamps and clear away the rubble in our hearts that the Lord may do a mighty work in us and restore our states of America.