Jer 17:10 - - The Lord searches the heart and tries the reins of a man in order to give every man according to the man’s ways and according to the fruit of the man’s doings.
God has a continuous view into each person’s thoughts, intentions, feelings, hopes and emotions. As we can control a horse’s direction with reins, the Lord can control our direction but gives us decisions to make. The question is: will we obey Him? Once God tries us (pulls on our reins), he rewards or corrects according to what we have been thinking or according to how we have acted. Once our thinking or acting has produced a product, he rewards or corrects us for that product - - according to the accomplishments, or mess, we have made for ourselves. God is directly involved with our lives.
“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.” (2Ch.16:9)
