OH 14:27{"Peace I leave with you" is much; "My peace I give unto you" is more. The added word tells the fathomless marvel of the gift—"My peace." Not merely "peace with God"; Christ has made that by the blood of His cross, and being justified by faith we have it through Him. But after we are thus reconciled, the enmity and the separation being ended, Jesus has a gift for us from His own treasures; and this is its special and wonderful value, that it is His very own. How we value a gift which was the giver's own possession! What a special token of intimate friendship we feel it to be! To others we give what we have made or purchased; it is only to very near and dear ones that we give what has been our own personal enjoyment or use. And so Jesus gives us not only peace made and peace purchased, but a share in His very own peace—divine, eternal, incomprehensible peace—which dwells in His own heart as God, and which shone in splendor of calmness through His life as man. No wonder that it "passeth all understanding.”
Thy reign is perfect, peace;
Not mine, but Thine!—
A stream that cannot cease,
For its fountain is Thy heart. O depth unknown!
Thou givest of Thine own,
Pouring from Thine and filling mine.
The "noise of war" hath passed away;
God's peace is on the throne,
Ruling with undisputed sway.