When I was 16 years old, I enjoyed free style rock climbing. My favorite place to climb was on the cliffs at Bodega Head near Bodega Bay. These Cliffs were so awesome, they are very rugged and challenging. On more than one occasion I found myself at a point where I had been climbing in very loose terrain. Now as any experienced climber knows you don’t climb in these areas because of the obvious danger. But I was very confident in my abilities and felt that I could handle it with my experience and knowledge. On some occasions as I was climbing in these areas I would find myself at a point that I could not go up or down. This by the way is about 300 feet above the raging ocean waters and jagged rocks below.  I would then promise God that if I could be able to somehow survive this ordeal I would change my life and be His Forever. Yes I would promise God that I would give up all those things in my life that separated me from Him. Then as He would help me out of the situation and I would find myself safe I would Thank Him with all my heart only to see myself fall back into my old desires in a very short time.
Was my life worth those things I told Him I would give up? Yes of course.
Philippians 3:8 Speaks about a similar situation we are all faced with but this is our eternal salvation in the balance. It says:
Phi 3:8  “Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,”
Only by giving up all that we have and take hold fully onto Christ can we be saved.
Blessings
Tony