Teaching at summer time is a lot of fun. The mornings are usually about the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. The afternoons are usually about fun stuff. About the middle of the seven-week session, one afternoon, the teacher's lesson was a poem written by a blind poet. The teacher introduced the poet by way of reading about her life, then he explained the background and the story line of the poem. He said that at first the poet was bitter about being blind but later discovered that her other senses were helping her cope with the lost of her sight. The teacher then read the poem, occasionally stopping between lines and asking the students what the author meant. In the middle of the poem the line reads "....and in time I came to see the light." The teacher paused and again asked the students what the author meant by that. There was silence, the students were thinking and thinking hard. Then Jesiah excitedly raised his hand and said..."I know, I know, she got saved!". I smiled and just fell in love with that child. I thought, with a name like Jesiah, there has got to be some Christian exposure in that home. Going back to the classroom my belief was confirmed. Jesiah told me that they go to church but not as often as he wants to.
The earliest record of the name Jesiah is found in the Bible. Referred to as Isshiah and then translated to Jessiah and finally shortened to Jesiah. He was said to be an ally of David at Ziklag. (Bible, 1 Chr. 12:6. B.C. 1055). He was also known as the second son of Uzziel, the son of Kohath. (1 Chronicles 23:20).
The name Jesiah means "Sprinkling of the Lord" and "whom Jehovah lends". Jesiah also means "The Lord Exists". Jesiah is very often spelt Josiah.
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