What motivated God to Create the Universe?
Scriptures tell us that one of God’s motives for making all that He created, the universe along with the spiritual and mortal beings that populate it, was to demonstrate His glory, and to receive back glory from His creations. Isaiah 43:7 tells us that some men, specifically those who are “called by My Name” were created for His glory. Isaiah 43:20 says that the “beasts of the field” and “the jackals and the ostriches” were also made for His glory. While such statements as this do not limit God to this as His only possible motive for creation, it is the one which He chooses to share with us in the Bible.
