What is my aim in following Jesus

When we think about it, what in my mind and life drives my following Jesus?
Do I subconsciously think that I can obediently follow Jesus in my own way and strength?
What does God's Law require of us?
Can you live up to all this perfectly?

"Many people, well meaning church leaders included, are eager to boil down Christianity to the great commandments, or the Sermon on the Mount, or the Beatitudes, or Micah 6:8, or some other powerful summary of God's ethical intentions. But if all I have are God's ethical intentions for my life, I am in a worse fix....My own efforts to be a good person are, in comparison to what God requires of me, positively miserable. I'll be damned, discouraged, and dismayed if being a follower of Jesus means nothing but a new set of things I'm supposed to do for Him. Instead, my following Jesus should be, first of all, a declaration of all that He has done for me."

This is from "Lord's Day 2" which is found in Kevin DeYoung's new book
The Good News We Almost Forgot