The Goodness of God, leads to obedience.

So very many times, in a big family, we try to legislate obedience through might. We say, "you may not do this or that" and we preserve and separate the "because I said so" and "because I am bigger than you". This personal tyranny rules the day most of the time in the large family. We are essentially expressing darwinism in practice (survival of the fittest), when we perpetrate those offenses against our brethren. God is the only one, who is most mighty and most strong and yet, in gentleness; He wins us to see His way and to learn from Him and to listen to Him. With a word, He could conform us to His will and I think that He gave us the example of the angel's disobedience to show us His eternal love for His redeemed. He always had intention to bring us to Himself in communion and fellowship and yet He waits and cajoles and gives and draws and convicts and blesses and if we see Him in His goodness, there is no other response, but to obey Him. If we take His good blessings and fill our many lusts with them and they draw us away from Him, we are worse than the devils who at one disobedience were banished from His presence. Still He bids us to come to Him. There is a line that God draws. We don't know where it is. To obey is better than sacrifice. We would rather cling to our lusts and have our own way.
The devil told that partial truth, in that way to Eve. You will be like God, knowing good and evil. You will be able to see the wickedness of your ways and choose from good and evil and cling to that which you want, as God does. That is the personal sovereignty that we won in the fall.
God clings to His Holiness and to His love; if we can say that about Him, whose essence is love and Holiness. Yet, even in His intention, God is intentionally Holy as well as holy in His essence. God is intentionally Good as well as good in His essence and it should make us want to cling to Him. But we are lustful of His Sovereignty, so we let go of goodness and holiness and cling to the word "mine". When we are thus, we really cannot have confidence that we belong to Him. We must seek His face to repent and confess and have our brethren pray that we would be saved from our selfishness. That is the bessetting sin of the large family child. I am sovereign over everybody. I talk and the whole family moves. Dinnertime! See how powerful I am. We think and say.
Let us imitate God's humility and goodness and speak peacefully and lovingly to one another. Let us not be as Satan who clings to his sovereignty over his imps and demons. Let us be dilligent and intentional in obedience to God, which is the sign of imitation of the only true God.