Why did God create Man?

One of the old questions: why would God have created people in the first place?

There is a poem by Kerry Hardie called Sheep Fair Day prefaced by a quote from Simone Weil which was being discussed by Jessie, The Droad and Myself.

               " The real aim is not to see God in all things, it is that God,
                 through us, should see the things that we see."

Having read a lot of  Simone Weil a long time ago, I probably owe to her the idea that God created man because He thought that sentient beings should be created so that they could experience and think about His wonderful creation. He in turn would then be able to see the things that mankind sees - another take on his own creation and wonderful for sentient beings too.

Jessie makes a distinction saying that this is one of the ways in which we might try to understand why God created us.