motives

we need to be careful when trying to assign motives as to the "why" God / Jesus / The Holy Spirit does something.

while it might be fine and fun to ponder what various persons in the Bible might have been thinking in various circumstances, we must not do that when it comes to God.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8

so, unless God tells us in scripture the "why" He has done or is doing something, we should refrain from speculation