Chapter 10
DEATH
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If there is one thing Lord that I have known well since my youth it is death. First, at the age of thirteen my Dad died, then shortly after that my grandmother. Then in 1981,during my military service six of my colleagues died while parachuting. The jumps from the airplane and from the towers were for me a challenge to death, just as if I was mocking it. Challenging death made me feel as powerful as it is.
Since my youth I established a particular relationship with it. It has always been like this for me: death is an appointment I have booked from the day I was born, and I will not miss it. Many are afraid of death, others try to ignore it or unconsciously think that they are immortal. But, what do you think about death, o Lord?"

"My dear, I know your heart; I know the despair you have felt, that feeling of emptiness, of dismay and bewilderment that lived in you. I know the feeling that gripped your stomach and accompanied you the days of your young and inexperienced life. When the sense of terror silently made your skin rise, I was not far away from you. I know the anguish of death very well, because when I was crucified I was all alone, surrounded only by men that mocked me 117. Death is the most tragic part of existence, the most devastating consequence of sin 118. Man died physically as a consequence of being separate from life, from me 119.

Satan is an eternal angel, he rebelled and died spiritually once and for all; He will never be able to come back, he is condemned to live forever separated from me.
Man, whom I love, has a greater possibility than Satan, because even though he dies spiritually exactly like Satan, he can re-establish his contact with me and consequently live again 120.

Man can restore a relationship of communion with me, through the confession of sin and the acknowledgement that sin has been paid for through my sacrifice on the cross. Only then I begin to live in the believer's heart. I bestow him with peace 121. My Spirit gives him new life and his spirit cannot die again 122.

This is exactly what happened to you: one day you silently stood before me in prayer, you recognized your sins, you hated them, you acknowledged that my sacrifice had given you the possibility to come into my presence 123. You believed that I would resurrect you in the last day 124.

If I hadn't died and risen for you, in your place, you would be dead in your sins 125.

But I can't save those who are guilty 126 and don't want to be saved. I cannot override anyone's will.
You must consider though, that my justice is not like the justice of man 127; In my eyes all human beings are guilty and condemned by their own actions, thoughts and desires 128.
My justice obliges me to condemn whoever is tainted by sin; I cannot in any way save the guilty ones, otherwise I should save even Satan; This is impossible because I am holy, separated from sin; I hate evil and cannot have anything to do with sin 129.
Today you can talk to me only because my blood was shed on the cross, two thousand years ago. That blood washed your sin, your past, your present and future sin.

This is the real defeat of death 130, this is the resurrection 131.

This is the real victory of man: to know that death cannot do anything to those who have been saved by me 132."

The Book in other languages
L'Amico Silenzioso
L'Ami Silencieux
Der Stille Freund

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