Is God a maniac?

In a sermon preached in 1877 entitled, "God's Thoughts and Ways Far Above Ours," C.H. Spurgeon notes the absurdity of calling God to account for His "great system of salvation and providence."

He says: "Shall divine revelation be judged and condemned, as men try a thief? Nay, worse than this, these sages so despise the teaching of the Lord, that one would think they were a committe of doctors examining a maniac."

This picture just struck me funny. Imagine the skeptic calling the Creator God of the universe to account for the fact that it rained today when he wanted is sunny. Or that his baseball team didn't win (again).

From this Spurgeon admonishes us: "Let us abhor the presumption of skepticism, and let us be wise enough to know our folly; rational enough to feel that God is to be obeyed, and not questioned; and that His revelation is to be believed and not criticized."

Notice the seriousness of this challenge. Spurgeon uses the word, "abhor" as in, "hate intensely." Who among us despises our own investigative prowess? Who among us takes anything but pride in our ability to see and to know. Ought we not more humbly doubt our own knowing?