When Christ Jesus comforted his disciples with the words, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you," john 14:27; he surely must have referred to the power of Love, God, to confer a peace that is more than the mere tranquillity of a material sense of things. His many exhortations to love one's brother indicate that this peace consists of the confident awareness that the power of divine Love, which always governed his thought and motivated his acts, is forever with us all in every generation to guide and protect us.
Human will seeks to classify love and to channel it into forms and goals that are, to say the least, self-serving. It is said to be good business or just common sense to place our favors and affections where they will do us the most good. Selfishness is not novel to this age but seems to be a major trait that even the earliest teachings of the Bible were meant to destroy.
Abraham realized a large measure of peace when he unselfishly told his nephew, Lot: "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. . . . Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." Gen. 13:8,9;
