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.
Thou shalt be blessed among all peoples; none barren of ever either kind shall be with thee, as well in men, as in thy flocks.
the sons of Israel increased, and were multiplied as burgeoning, and they were made strong greatly, and filled the land.
His seed shall be mighty in [the] earth; the generation of rightful [or right] men shall be blessed.
For thou haddest in possession my reins; thou tookest me up from the womb of my mother.
I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou art magnified dreadfully; thy works be wonderful, and my soul shall know that full much.
My bone, which thou madest in private, is not hid from thee; and my substance formed in the lower parts of [the] earth.
Thine eyes saw mine unperfect thing, and all men shall be written in thy book; days shall be formed, and no man is in those [or them].
lo! the heritage of the Lord is sons, the meed is the fruit of [the] womb.
Whether that I make others to bear child, shall not bear child myself? saith the Lord. Whether I that give gener-ation to other men, shall be barren? saith thy Lord 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 may all things in him that comforteth me.
And he said to me, My grace sufficeth to thee; for virtue is perfectly made in infirmity. Therefore gladly I shall glory in mine infirmities, that the virtue of Christ dwell in me.
Bow down thine ear to me; haste thou to deliver me. Be thou to me into God a defender, and into an house of refuge; that thou make me safe.
From the ends of the land I cried to thee; the while mine heart was anguished, thou enhancedest me in a stone. Thou leddest me forth,
As a shepherd he shall feed his flock, he shall gather [the] lambs in his arms, and he shall raise in his bosom; he shall bear [the] sheep with lamb.
The house of Jacob, and all the residue of the house of Israel, hear ye me, which be borne of my womb, which be borne of my womb.
Till to eld I myself, and till to hoar hairs, I shall bear; I made, and I shall bear, and I shall save.
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 shall be saved by generation of children, if she dwell perfectly in faith, and love, and holiness, with soberness.
Her sons rose up, and preached her most blessed; her husband rose, and praised her.
Forsooth Adam knew Eve his wife, which conceived, and childed Cain, and said, I have gotten a man by God.
Forsooth God visited Sarah, as he promised, and [ful] filled those things, that he spake.
And she conceived, and childed a son in her eld age, in the time wherein God before-said to her.
And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, for she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and gave conceiving to Rebecca.
And it was done after the compass of days, Hannah conceived, and childed a son, and called his name Samuel; for she had asked him of the Lord.
Proteção divina
Deus protege a mãe e o bebê, guardando-os de todo mal. Ele acompanha cada momento com ternura e fidelidade.
He that dwelleth in the help of the highest God; shall dwell in the protection of God of heaven.
He shall say to the Lord, Thou art mine up-taker, and my refuge; my God, I shall hope in him.
The Lord keep thee from all evil; the Lord keep thy soul.
The Lord keep thy going in and thy going out; from this time now and into the world.
Before that I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee; and before that thou wentest out of the womb, I hallowed thee; and I gave thee to be a prophet among folks.
If men chide, and a man smiteth a woman with child, and soothly he maketh the child dead-born, but the woman liveth over that smiting, he shall be subject to the harm, as much as the woman’s husband asketh, and as the judges deem.
Soothly if the death of her pursueth [or follow], he shall yield life for life,
Whether a woman may forget her young child, that she have not mercy on the son of her womb? though she forget, nevertheless I shall not forget thee.
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 also that Sarah barren, took virtue in conceiving of seed, yea, against the time of age; for she believed him true, that had promised.
And blessed be thou, that hast believed, for those things that be said of [or from] the Lord to thee, shall be perfectly done.
And Mary said, My soul magnifieth the Lord,
and my spirit hath gladded in God, mine health [or mine health-giver].
For he hath beheld the meekness of his handmaid/his handmaiden. For lo! of this all generations shall say that I am blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things, and his name is holy.
Which maketh a barren woman dwell in the house; a glad mother of sons.
and I shall bless her, and of her I shall give to thee a son, whom I shall bless, and he shall be into nations, and kings of peoples shall be born of him.
Thy wife shall be as a plenteous vine; in the sides of thine house. Thy sons as the new springs of olive trees; in the compass of thy board.