In his discourse with his disciples the night before his crucifixion, Jesus declared (John 14:27): "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Here the Prince of Peace made it clear that his gift of tranquillity was spiritual. It was "not as the world giveth"—precarious, uncertain, vacillating, unjust. His peace is of God and is divinely mental, stable, calm, certain, enduring, unchanging, just. It is peace as it exists eternally in the spiritual realm of the real.
Genuine peace is a state of spiritual, immortal perfection. It is a state in which each idea of God, good, fulfills its God-ordained function without encroaching upon the activities of other ideas, without pressure, crowding, pride, self-will, or jealousy, because both the ideas and their activity are in Spirit, where there is no matter or trespassing mortal error. Peace is immortal, infinite, eternal.
