7:4,5
In all governments and organisations there are gradations of qualities of people, but even the best of the Israelites were not very good! So judgement was coming, and people would be thrown into confusion. No one would be trustworthy, anyone could betray you. This is the sort of thing that happened in Nazi Germany and in Communist Russia, and continues to happen in authoritarian regimes. There is a complete breakdown of trust.
7:6
Remember that Jesus spoke of father and son, mother and daughter being opposed to each other (Luke 12:53). The family should be the place where we are most secure, but when trust breaks down this becomes a most insecure place. This is what happens when we abandon God and His ways. And we see this in the massive breakdown of families in the West. It breeds massive insecurity, with enormous economic, social and psychological costs.
7:7
So what is one to do in such circumstances? What are we to do in our day when society is increasingly rejecting Christ and Christian values, even making it a crime to hold and expound Christian values? We are to look to the Lord. We are to wait for the God of our salvation, confident that He will hear our prayer. Now this waiting need not be passive, rather it means we look to God and we continue to act and live according to His ways. Salvation will come.
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