Compaixão: o que a Bíblia ensina sobre este sentimento
Na Bíblia, compaixão não é mera simpatia ou pena passageira: é a dor sentida no íntimo diante do sofrimento alheio que move imediatamente à ação prática. As Escrituras revelam a compaixão primeiro como traço central do caráter de Deus e, a partir dessa experiência, como um chamado prático para os relacionamentos humanos.
A compaixão no caráter de Deus
Quando Deus se revela na Bíblia, a compaixão aparece associada à sua paciência e à sua disposição constante de perdoar. Ele não reage ao pecado humano apenas com juízo rígido, mas busca reconciliação.
But youi, O Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things], [are] a God-El [a God] full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.(Tehillim - Psalms 86:15)
Who [is] a God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] like unto youi, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights [in] mercy.(Micah 7:18)
Mesmo em contextos de crise, exílio e destruição, a Escritura aponta que a compaixão divina é o motivo pelo qual a história humana continua e encontra restauração.
[It is of] the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
[They are] new every morning: great [is] youi faithfulness.(Lamentations 3:22,23)
And therefore will the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] a God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of judgment: Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [are] all they that wait for him.(Isaiah 30:18)
O acolhimento divino na fragilidade humana
Para explicar como essa compaixão opera, os escritores bíblicos recorrem a figuras de cuidado familiar: a atenção atenta de um pai aos limites dos filhos e o zelo irredutível de uma mãe pelo bebê que amamenta.
Like as a father pities [his] children, [so] the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] pities them that fear him.(Tehillim - Psalms 103:13)
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget youi.
Behold, I have graven youi upon the palms of [my] hands; youri walls [are] continually before me.(Isaiah 49:15,16)
O texto mostra que Deus não rejeita a pessoa por causa de sua fraqueza ou de seus limites; pelo contrário, é exatamente ali que o amparo divino se manifesta com maior firmeza.
Because youri lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise youi.(Tehillim - Psalms 63:3)
And I will strengthen the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and I will save the house of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add], and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and will hear them.(Zechariah 10:6)
A empatia manifesta em Cristo
No Novo Testamento, a compaixão deixa de ser apenas uma palavra e se torna encarnação. Jesus participou da existência humana, conhecendo a dor, a perda e o sofrimento por experiência direta.
For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tried or tested like as [we are, yet] without sin.(Hebrews 4:15)
Essa experiência de ser alcançado pela misericórdia de Deus cria uma corrente de cuidado mútuo: quem recebeu consolo na própria aflição é capacitado a se achegar à dor do outro.
Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] God-The Father, even the Father of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], the Father of mercies, and the God-The Father of all comfort;
Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort which we ourselves are comforted of God-The Father.(2 Corinthians 1:3,4)
A compaixão como prática diária
A Escritura rejeita a compaixão que fica só no discurso. Tanto a lei profética do Antigo Testamento quanto o ensino apostólico exigem que o sentimento se converta em justiça concreta para com os necessitados e em paciência na vida comunitária.
Thus speaks the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.(Zechariah 7:9,10)
But whoso has this world’s good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels (inward parts; affections) [of compassion] from him, how dwells the love of God-The Father in him?(1 John 3:17)
Nas relações do dia a dia, isso se traduz em empatia real, na disposição para perdoar e no cultivo consciente da paz.
Put [a bow] on therefore, as the elect of God-The Father, holy and beloved, bowels (inward parts; affections) of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;(Colossians 3:12)
And be you2f kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God-The Father for Moshiach [Messiah]’s sake has forgiven you.(Ephesians 4:32)
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.(Romans 12:15)
Finally, [be you2f] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:(1 Peter 3:8)
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God-The Father of love and peace shall be with you.(2 Corinthians 13:11)
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