Where does your strength come from?

I've been reading in Daniel lately and Chapter 10 has to be one of my favourites! In it we see an incredible Christophany (an appearance of Christ before his Incarnation)...

Listen to how Daniel describes what he sees:
"His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude." (10:6)
Yikes! Imagine seeing someone like that...What would be your reaction?
Here is Daniels:
"...no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed and I retained no strength...I feel on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground."
Later Daniel even says "pains have come upon me and I retain no strength...no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me."

Basically Daniel is saying...it took every ounce of strength out of him...to the point of death to be in the presence of Christ...even so, we are told that just to stand in his presence Daniel needed to be lifted up, and strengthed. Strengthened with a different kind of strength.

Here is my point to all of this....First go read Daniel chapter 10 to actually see what I'm yakking about....But the thing that hits me is this: So many of us go for so long...many their whole lives living on our own strength. We can do it, we are pretty incredible creatures. However to live on our own strength alone is to live a life that is only a miniscule fragment of what we are meant for.

Daniel was weakened incredibly by simply being in the presence of Christ...BUT...he was strengthened beyond what he had ever known by Christ. This is what we need! We need to abandon ourselves to God completely; to let him take all our "so called" strength, and give us new strength...new life, in Christ.

1 Cor 1:25 says: "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."