The Fountain of Life

[474 words] If you go to the city of St. Augustine, Florida, you can go to an attraction claiming to be the Fountain of Youth. According to legend, Ponce de Leon landed near this site in the year 1535 and claimed a nearby spring to be a source of perpetual youthfulness based on the physiques of the indigenous people. (Note: there is no historical or archaeological evidence to support any of this, nor is there any mention in any of Ponce de Leon’s writings.) Yet the myth is an attractive one and many have sought (and still seek) a source of being forever young. While the Bible speaks of the tree of life (Genesis 2:9; Revelation 22:1) and the river of life (Revelation 22:2), the true source of life is God. The psalmist wrote, “For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light” (Psalms 36:9);…