Now, please understand, God’s aim is not to control you like some slavish robot. He made mankind to relate to Him, to be like His Son:

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

(Gen 1:26)

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

(Rom 8:27)