Sobre ter filhos
Filhos são uma dádiva do Senhor, uma herança que Deus confia aos pais. A Bíblia celebra a maternidade e a paternidade como vocações sagradas e fontes de bênção.
Filhos: herança do Senhor
A Escritura declara que os filhos são bênção de Deus. Cada criança é um presente precioso confiado aos pais para ser cuidado com amor.
3 Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah [are] sons, A reward [is] the fruit of the womb.4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So [are] the sons of the young men.5 O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!
3 Thy wife [is] as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.
9 Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!
28 And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.
Instruir nos caminhos de Deus
A Bíblia orienta os pais a instruir seus filhos nos caminhos do Senhor desde cedo, com dedicação, disciplina e exemplo.
6 Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
18 And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;19 and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
21 the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
17 Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.
Cada vida é preciosa
Deus conhece e forma cada criança no ventre. Antes de nascer, Ele já nos separou e preparou um propósito para cada vida.
5 Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.
13 For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mothers belly.14 I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.15 My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
2 From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;