Can You Keep a Secret?

Proverbs 11:13 
“A gossip betrays a confidence but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.”

Secrets are not child's play, they are the stuff of life. At all cost, surround yourself with people who can keep secrets. But know the danger of secrets as well.

Bless you, if you can keep a secret!
I want (need) people like you in my life. Secrecy is a cocoon of opportunity. There are so many things in life that we need trustworthy people to help us address.

You can’t do any of these six things without the power of secrets:

• Process your dark stuff with a great counsellor
• Know true intimacy in a marriage
• Celebrate a special occasion for one you love and do it with genuine surprise
• Have adequate space to process a decision that will effect others
• Think through a complex problem or opportunity with a friend
• Act kindly with anonymity

Can you keep a secret? Bless you if you can because many secrets are good.

But, should you keep this or that particular secret?
Secrecy can also be a closet for sinister things.

Six secrets that don’t deserve to be kept:

• The secret that abuses
• The lie that confuses
• The covert injustice
• The clandestine affair
• The unacknowledged prejudice
• The ‘dirty little’ secret

In these situations, blow the whistle. When secrecy hides truth and fosters evil it is the responsibility of good people to shine a light in the darkness. Some secrets are bad.

You won’t have to keep secrets forever.
Secrecy is temporary. The Bible promises there will come a “day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ” (Rom. 2:16) and when we “shall see face to face” and “know fully” (1 Cor. 13:12). Good secrets won’t be needed, bad secrets won’t be tolerated.

Until then. Bless you if you can keep a secret and bless you even more if you know when not to!

Questions

• Have you experienced the hurt of betrayed confidence? Have you healed from that experience? What do you need to do to grow further or share that learning?
• Are you aware of any "secrets" that need light shed on them?
• What is gossip? How do you keep from participating in it?
• Please leave a comment.

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