We want to know things, but sometimes information can hurt us, or we know it might hurt someone else, so we withhold that information, at least temporarily until the problem is fixed.

Such happened with the health of a boy who had died after he told his father that his head hurt, and the father had his servant take the boy to his mother,

And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers. And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out. Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back.” So he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.” And she said, “It is well” (2 Kings 4:18–23).

This woman and her husband had provided a place for Elisha the prophet to stay, and she had this son because Elisha had told her that she would, although her husband was old, and she knew Elisha could also raise this boy from the dead.

Therefore, she did not reveal to her husband that his son had died, believing that soon he would be alive again. So why trouble him with bad news of the boy’s death when it was not necessary?

Why has someone withheld information from you? There are many potential answers, but at least consider that such a person might be protecting you.