Gravidez e maternidade
Gravidez e maternidade são bênçãos celebradas na Bíblia. Deus forma cada criança no ventre, cuida da mãe e da família, e abençoa a geração dos justos.
Filhos são herança do Senhor
Deus abençoa a fertilidade e o crescimento das famílias. Cada criança é obra de suas mãos, conhecida e amada antes mesmo de nascer.
You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock.
But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.
His descendants will be powerful in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
For it was you who created my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. ,
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well.
My bones were not hidden from you
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in your book and planned
before a single one of them began.
Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
offspring, a reward.
"Will I bring a baby to the point of birth
and not deliver it? "
says the Lord;
"or will I who deliver, close the womb? "
says your God.
Força e cuidado na gravidez
Deus dá forças à mulher grávida e a sustenta em cada etapa. Sua graça é suficiente e seu poder se aperfeiçoa na fraqueza.
I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my poweris perfected in weakness."
Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a mountain fortress to save me.
I call to you from the ends of the earth
when my heart is without strength.
Lead me to a rock that is high above me,
He protects his flock like a shepherd;
he gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them in the fold of his garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.
"Listen to me, house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been sustained from the womb,
carried along since birth.
I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and rescue you.
A bênção da maternidade
A Bíblia honra a maternidade como ministério sagrado. As mães são instrumentos de Deus para formar vidas e transmitir a fé.
But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with good sense.
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also praises her:
The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have had a male child with the Lord’s help."
The Lord came to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord was receptive to his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
After some time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, because she said, "I requested him from the Lord."
Proteção divina
Deus protege a mãe e o bebê, guardando-os de todo mal. Ele acompanha cada momento com ternura e fidelidade.
The one who lives under the protection of the Most High
dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say concerning the Lord, who is my refuge and my fortress,
my God in whom I trust:
The Lord will protect you from all harm;
he will protect your life.
The Lord will protect your coming and going
both now and forever.
I chose you before I formed you in the womb;
I set you apart before you were born.
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
"When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment. If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,
"Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Esperança e promessa
A maternidade é caminho de esperança. Como Sara, Ana e Isabel, as mães encontram na fé a força para aguardar as promessas de Deus.
By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the one who had promised was faithful.
Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill what he has spoken to her! "
And Mary said:
My soul magnifies the Lord,
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
because he has looked with favor
on the humble condition of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,
because the Mighty One
has done great things for me,
and his name is holy.
He gives the childless woman a household,
making her the joyful mother of children.
Hallelujah!
I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your children, like young olive trees
around your table.