Elder Gong is a member of the Presidency of the Seventy. He speaks about the covenants made when partaking of the sacrament. Specifically, he speaks about our commitment to "always remember Him."
The six ways we can remember Him are outlined with addition comments he made during his talk
- Each week, in partaking of the sacrament, we covenant to always remember Him. Drawing on the nearly 400 scripture references to the word remember, here are six ways we can always remember Him.
The six ways we can remember Him are outlined with addition comments he made during his talk
- First, we can always remember Him by having confidence in His covenants, promises, and assurances.
- Second, we can always remember Him by gratefully acknowledging His hand throughout our lives.
- The Lord’s hand in our lives is often clearest in hindsight.
- We can remember those who give us a chance, and a second chance, with honesty, kindness, patience, and encouragement. And we can become someone others remember when they most needed help. Gratefully remembering the assistance of others and the Spirit’s guiding influence is a way we remember Him. It is a way we count our many blessings and see what God hath done.
- Third, we can always remember Him by trusting when the Lord assures us, “He who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.”
- Once we repent and priesthood leaders declare us worthy, we need not continue to confess and confess these past sins. To be worthy does not mean to be perfect. Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness invites us to be humbly at peace on our life’s journey to someday become perfected in Christ, not constantly worried, frustrated, or unhappy in our imperfections today. Remember, He knows all the things we don’t want anyone else to know about us—and loves us still.
- When trust is betrayed, dreams shattered, hearts broken and broken again, when we want justice and need mercy, when our fists clench and our tears flow, when we need to know what to hold onto and what to let go of, we can always remember Him. Life is not as cruel as it can sometimes seem. His infinite compassion can help us find our way, truth, and life.
- If we have unkind feelings, grudges, or resentments or if we have cause to ask forgiveness of others, now is the time to do so.
- Fourth, He invites us to remember that He is always welcoming us home.
- When you are ready, please open your heart to the Book of Mormon, again, for the first time. Please pray with real intent, again, for the first time.
- Prophets ancient and modern implore us not to let human foibles, faults, or weaknesses—others’ or our own—cause us to miss the truths, covenants, and redeeming power in His restored gospel. This is especially important in a church where we each grow through our imperfect participation.
- Fifth, we can always remember Him on the Sabbath through the sacrament.
- We remember Him when we pray over our fields, our flocks, and our households and when we remember the needy, the naked, the sick and afflicted.
- Finally, sixth, our Savior invites us to always remember Him as He always remembers us.
- At times in history, mortal men have been executed by crucifixion. But only our Savior, Jesus Christ, embraces us still carrying the marks of His pure love. Only He fulfills the prophecy of being lifted up upon the cross that He might draw each of us, by name, to Him.
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