God's perfect peace is attained only through devoted seeking that follows the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, in total self-sacrifice. Human efforts to establish lasting peace after World War I, including treaties and the League of Nations, failed because they relied on prideful self-government apart from God and merely sought better ways to continue conflict. In contrast, God has worked from eternity toward an unbreakable peace of unity and harmony that will never again permit war in His creation. This peace requires believers to keep His commandments as the practical expression of love for God and neighbor, thereby producing the fruit described in I Corinthians 13. The peace offering in Leviticus illustrates the result: when the offerer, priest, and God share the same meal, all are satisfied and in fellowship, showing that sacrifice forms the essence of love and acceptance before the Father. Jesus Christ fulfills every aspect of this offering as the unblemished sacrifice, the mediating priest, and the offerer who perfectly obeys the two great commandments. Those called by the Father must therefore pursue peace by rejecting the chaos of worldly division, meditating on what is true and noble, rejoicing always, and bringing every request to God with thanksgiving. Such seeking guards the heart and mind through Jesus Christ while preparing participants for the new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells and God declares that all things are made new.

The priests and prophets cried peace when there was no peace, offering superficial comfort instead of urging repentance. Nations of the world are never truly at peace, as incessant wars demonstrate. People of the world are not at peace with God, as mounting sins prove. They are not at peace with neighbors, as crime statistics confirm. They are not at peace with themselves, as suicide rates and mental health statistics indicate. Humanity has never known the peace of God that He wants people to live, because iniquities separate them from God and make peace impossible. The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made themselves crooked paths, and whoever takes that way shall not know peace. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Only those who have made the New Covenant with God have access to the two types of peace available to believers. These must be sought, maintained, and nurtured. God supplies what He supplies, but much remains for people to do so that this atmosphere of peace can grow. The first type is more of His doing, yet people must still come out of the world with His help. If they seek these two types of peace, struggle to maintain them, and nurture them to growth, then the abundant life that Christ promises will be theirs.