On a day for honoring and thanking the Lord for our earthly fathers, we will read about how king Joash responded to the faithful love of Jehoiada the priest, who was like a father to him. While Jehoiada was alive, Joash worked with him to restore God’s house so that burnt offerings could be offered regularly. But after Jehoiada died, Joash forgot the kindness he’d been shown, and he abandoned the house of the Lord by worshipping idols and neglecting to offer burnt offerings. In a similar way, so much of our faithfulness to our heavenly Father is tied to remembering his kindness to us, most of all in the sacrifice of his Son, as represented by those burnt offerings.