neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
Man's great happiness is served by work; even Eden was not a place of idleness, but of work  (Genesis 2:15).  All Scriptural glimpses of the invisible creations above invariably reveal them in a positive attitude of performance and creative activity.  Even the angels on Jacob's ladder  (Genesis 28:12) were not posed in attitudes of fixed and static devotion, but were ascending and descending upon it.  Christ declared that "My Father worketh even until now, and I work" (John 5:17).  Children, therefore, of a working God and beneficiaries of the blood of a working Saviour should honor their calling by a life of diligent, faithful work.