Daniel Exclaimed, "There Remains No Strength in Me"! When He Saw His God in Person and Close Up! How Will You Respond When You Stand Before Him? A Point to Ponder . . . !

One alone before the Great White Throne Judgment of God to give account for his/her life!

A Devotional Thought for November 2, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan, an Early English Baptist

Who Wrote the Pilgrim's Progress

There Remains No Strength in Me!

“And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, ‘O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength. How can my lord’s servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me”

Daniel 10: 16-17.

[There was a] . . . time . . . when Jacob had that memorable visit from God. In which he gave him power as a prince to prevail with him. Yea and gave him a name, that by his remembering it he might call God’s favor the better to his mind. Yet even then and there such dread of the majesty of God was upon him, that he went away wondering that his life was preserved (Genesis 32: 30). Man, crumbles to dust at the presence of God. Yea, though he shows himself to us in his robes of salvation. We have read how dreadful and how terrible even the presence of angels have been unto men and that when they have brought them good tidings from heaven (Judges 13: 22; Matthew 28: 4; Mark 16: 5-6).

Now, if angels, which are but creatures are through the glory that God has put upon them, so fearful and terrible in their appearance to men; how much more dreadful and terrible must God himself be to us, who are but dust and ashes! When Daniel had the vision of his salvation sent him from heaven, for so it was: “O Daniel,” said the messenger, “a man greatly beloved.” Yet behold the dread and terror of the person speaking fell with that weight upon this good man’s soul, that he could not stand nor bear up under it. He stood trembling and cries out, “O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. For how the servant of this my lord can talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me” (Daniel 10: 16-17).