I

When a person accepts God’s commission,

God has a standard for judging whether their actions are good or bad,

whether they’ve submitted, whether they’ve satisfied God’s intentions

and whether what they do is adequate.

What God cares about is the person’s heart,

not their actions on the surface.

What God cares about is the person’s heart,

not their actions on the surface.

It is not the case that God should bless someone

as long as they do something, no matter how they do it.

This is a misunderstanding people have about God.

II

God looks not just at the end result of things,

but places more emphasis on

how a person’s heart is and how a person’s attitude is

during the development of things.

God looks at whether there is submission, consideration,

and the desire to satisfy God in their heart,

the desire to satisfy God in their heart.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. God’s Work, God’s Disposition, and God Himself I