When a person accepts God’s commission, God has a standard for judging whether their actions are good or bad and whether the person has submitted, and whether the person has satisfied God’s intentions and whether what they do is up to standard. What God cares about is the person’s heart, not their actions on the surface. It’s not the case that God should bless someone as long as they do something, regardless of how they do it. This is a misunderstanding people have about God. 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, and He looks at whether there is submission, consideration, and 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