God's Nature

God's fundamental nature: what ultimately drives God to do what God does, is creativity.  God creates things.  And this creative power is an end in itself.  God created the universe billions of years before sentient beings appeared who could perceive it and, ultimately, recognize God as the One who created all things.

God's redemptive activity in Christ was an anomaly necessitated by humanity's sin.  It is an interruption in creativity.  God's desire that we repent and turn to God and become sanctified is not an end in itself; it is a means to the removal of the anomaly so that the infinite creativity in the world can resume.

By analogy, when we choose to build a house, we don't build the house so that one day the roof will leak and require time and energy expended in repairing it.  The leaky roof is an anomaly that prevents the home from being what it is.  We fix the leaky roof, irritated by the interruption in the natural order of things, so we can get back to the business of the home being what it is.