Always remember Him: reflections for the Sacrament

I often have a hard time knowing what to think about during the Sacrament. I’ve been participating in it all my life, so I want to have some different ways of thinking about the meaning that are truly helpful. I think it was an episode of Teaching With Power I was listening to which gave the ideas I’m going to share here, along with some extra thoughts.

What can I ‘remember’ when I partake of the Sacrament?

The bread

Christ’s resurrected body

• The promise of my resurrection, and the hope of eternal life
• What Christ’s victory over death means for me:
  • elimination of my mortal pains and sorrows, eventually
  • the immortality of my soul
  • how does it change my perspective of my life, and this week (past/ahead)?

The signs of Christ’s atonement

• ‘Behold the prints of the nails in my hands and feet‘ – indicating His immense love for each of us. His dependability, compassion, mercy, courage, and intercession.

The water

• Christ’s attributes:
  • What I need to increase in, and what He can give me of them, through His atoning power, especially…
  • Forgiveness, which He can give me perfectly, as a result of His sacrifice. I am not lost. I can be healed, made whole, through this sacrifice. Healed of my weaknesses and my weakness in allowing them or in overcoming them.
  • He will help me with the spirit of His attributes, as I seek them.

The covenant

To ‘always remember’ Christ means to strive to be like Him. As I do that, remember the power that He has to make me like Him, which I can seek and gain through the power of the Holy Ghost and the promise that as I try to be like Christ, and do God’s will, I will have the power to do so. That I can, again, this week, remember Him as I go about each day; remember this power and this need; this goal.