I have a watch on my wrist and the beauty of this watch and the fact that it moves and works with accuracy and precision makes me know that somewhere there had to be a maker. So if you say to me, “That is a beautiful watch. Where did you get it? Where did it come from?” I wouldn’t say, “It didn’t come from anywhere. It just happened.” You would say, “Well, the preacher had lost his marbles again.” Have you ever seen a watch that didn’t have a watchmaker? Behind a watch there is a maker. Behind the world there must be a world-maker. And what God made tells us something about him.
While I don’t know the name of the man who made this watch, I do know that he had to be a man with some skill and some eye for beauty. He had to have some intelligence. I know something about the man who made it by what he made. I can look at the world around me and I can know something about the God who made the world by the very handiwork of his creative power. And Paul says in Romans 1:20 that this kind of knowledge is available to all men and sufficient so that men have no excuse for their sins. You see if God reveals himself to us, he expects us to live up to that revelation, to respond to that revelation and begin to seek him. And if men do not seek God as he has made himself known, then they are responsible for their actions.