If you go to Jesus, He may ask of you far more than you originally planned to give,—but He can give you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
When you come to Christ, you must drop your conditions. You have to give up the right to say, ‘I will obey you if... I will do this if...' As soon as you say, ‘I will obey you if,’ that is not obedience at all. You are saying: ‘You are my adviser, not my Lord. I will be happy to take your recommendations. And I might even do some of them.’ No. If you want Jesus with you, you have to give up the right to self-determination. Self-denial is an act of rebellion against our late-modern culture of self-assertion. But that is what we are called to. Nothing less.