The answer
It calls us to heavenly life without coercive force! God sanctifies human freedom, revealing to us through the way of life and the way of death, the enjoyment of divine light or deviation into the darkness of Satan. He leaves room for perfect freedom to choose either of the two ways, while at the same time working within us to create a sanctified will, without compulsion on His part.
St. Basil the Great says, “The Christian ought to think thoughts befitting his heavenly calling and to live a life worthy of the Gospel of Christ.”130
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
130 St. Basil of Caesarea, Letter 22, Concerning the Perfection of the Monastic Life (FOTC 13:55).