Confidence

Is it bad, to keep the confidences of others? 

Do Doctors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counsellors, Ministers, Lawyers, and etc., do wrong in keeping the confidences of their clients? 

Is signing legal non-disclosure agreements binding? 

Then, how much more binding are covenants made before God? 

How many times did Jesus ask people to keep his confidences? 

Would any of us like our closest, and most trusted friends and associates, to reveal those things which we have entrusted to them? 

Joseph Smith was recorded as saying, "The reason we do not have the secrets of the Lord revealed unto us, is because we do not keep them, but reveal them; we do not keep our own secrets, but reveal our difficulties to the world, even to our enemies, then how would we keep the secrets of the Lord?  'I can keep a secret till Doomsday'.  What greater love hath any man than that he lay down his life for his friend, then why not fight for our friend until we die." 

Any person who breaks the confidence of a friend or associate, especially when under covenant or obligation to keep that confidence, has betrayed that friend or associate, and has broken their covenants, and destroyed their most sacred obligations. 

A Gossip revealeth secrets, but he that is faithful keepeth a confidence. 
~ Proverbs 11:13 

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