In Elder Holland's October 1995 General Conference Address entitled "This Do in Rememberance of Me," he talks a lot about the importance of the sacrament and the atonement, but he also brings up a very significant point. Every week when we partake of the sacrament, we are renewing our baptisimal covenant to "always remember Him." Do we always remember Christ? Do we think about Him in every thought and action we experience in our lives? It's definitely really hard for me to do that. How can we always remember Him?
In Moroni 7:24, it says:
And behold, there were divers ways that he did manifest things unto the children of men, which were good; and all things which are good cometh of Christ; otherwise men were fallen, and there could no good thing come unto them.
I think that's really the key to remembering Christ always. Since all good things come from Christ, as long as we're always involved in doing good, the Spirit will be with us to remind us of Him, because we are working for Him. You don't always have to be reading your scriptures or doing service necessarily, but everything you do should be good. And if we can do that, we can always remember Him.
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In Ezra Taft Benson's "This Nation Shall Endure," he talks about how everyone around us is always trashing our founding fathers and what kind of people they were. By doing this, they are trashing the principles that those men stood for. In short, they are destroying their own country by forgetting God and His principles. This is God's chosen land, so no external force can destroy us without the allowance of God. This nation can only be destroyed internally, and it is being destroyed internally because we are forgetting God. America has only lasted because of the few Americans who do remember Him, and it will only continue to last if we continue to remember Him.
"We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." --Abraham Lincoln
I'll try to remember Christ more now, and do things that will help me do it.
ReplyDeleteYou make some great points. I think a lot of people get confused about "always remember Him" and think it means we have to be thinking of His life at all times, but I think you are right - it means we think about what He would have us do and our motivations so we can be sure we are engaged in His work.
ReplyDeleteI like your Lincoln quote a lot!