If a person relies on GD in the very choice of serving Him and says, "I will neither choose nor resolve to do anything in the service of the Creator until He chooses for me what is best," he strays from the straight path and deviates from the right way. For the Creator may He be exalted has already commanded us to choose the performance of His service and to direct our intent toward it with vigor, resolve, and wholehearted for the sake of His great Name, and He has instructed us that this is the right way for us in this world and the next.
If the means are available to us and we are able to carry out the work of service which we had previously chosen, we will receive bounteous reward for having chosen GD's service, for having intended to discharge it, and for having carried out its acts with our eternal limbs. And if our limbs are unable to carry out the acts, we will receive reward for having chosen and intended to do them, as we mentioned earlier. The same is true in regard to punishment for transgression (whether committed or only intended) pg 429