As we partake of the wine (water in the current practice of the Church), we covenant always to remember our Savior. The Lord reminds us that those who repent and are baptized in His name shall partake of the emblems of the sacrament in remembrance of His body and blood, which He sacrificed for us. If we always remember Him, we will always have His Spirit to be with us.
As the “living bread” (John 6:51) and the “fountain of living waters” (Jeremiah 17:13), the Savior is commemorated in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to the end that all supplicants renew their covenants and commit to live lives worthy of His Spirit. The sacrament is a profoundly sacred ordinance instituted to help us remember. Speaking of this aspect of our worship, President Gordon B. Hinckley has stated:
We are a covenant people… . The first of these is the covenant of the sacrament, in which we take upon ourselves the name of the Savior and agree to keep His commandments with the promise in His covenant that He will bless us with His spirit. If our people would go to sacrament meeting every week and reflect as they partake of the sacrament on the meaning of the prayers which are offered, … if they would listen to the language of those prayers, which were given by revelation, and live by them, we would be a better people, all of us would be. That is the importance of the sacrament meeting. (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997], 146–147)