Yeah, though I’m pretty sure God does ultimately desire to control what other people do. He did tell us to go out and spread the good news to the four corners of the world in the Gospels, and I can see no other way to do so than via force, to ensure God is Emperor over His creation as he desired the day he created existence. Otherwise, he’d pull a Jimmy Carter and leave us to die.
Well, I wouldn’t say God desires to control us. We have free will, and although He calls us to serve, we can choose to go the other way. Of course that has consequences, but when people refer to “fear of the Lord”, it’s not fear of what He will do, but fear of what He won’t do. If we turn away from Him, He’ll turn away from us, and leave us to our own devices. That’s what you should fear.