What I am doing needs to have purpose and direction. Furthermore, what I am doing needs to have some value not only to ourselves but to those around us. Doing, simply for the sake of doing, leaves us unsatisfied and adrift. We need, all of us, to give ourselves over to something that's greater than our selves. Jesus calls us to devote our selves, or lives, our energies, and all that we've got, to accomplish His mission in life, namely to bring freedom to those who feel trapped, vision to those who are blinded by the flash and neon of all that's superficial in our glittering world of make-believe, and to bring value to those whose lives are devoted to all that's cheap.
Many people sell themselves short.
For all of them, Jesus Christ offers a mission, a purpose and a value that liberates them from the captivity of worldliness and shallow materialism. This, Jesus gives us that we might be fully alive - just as He gave life to Lazarus. There is nothing quite like having someone to love that can raise our hearts and souls up from the dead. Far too many people find their hearts and souls dead and entombed because they are loveless. Having no one to love except themselves, they might as well be dead - and they know it.