Law II: Ten Commandments

 Does your house have a "no playing football in the house" rule? If it does  how did you come to have that rule? More often than not, it's because someone was playing football in the house and something broke. How does God create laws? Surely He knows all things and makes them according to His personality and to His knowledge, but from our perspective He can also make laws that remind us of the past and our interaction with Him. This is certainly true of the most famous of the Old Testament laws: The Ten Commandments.
 First let's consider the first commandment: Have no other Gods before Him. This should immediately bring up thoughts of the creation narrative. In Genesis 1 we don't see any interaction with other gods, we only see the assumed nature that there is only one God. We also see that we aren't to have any idols for number 2. In Genesis 3 we see Eve and Adam make an idol out of themselves by trying to become gods themselves through the forbidden fruit. Paul tells us that greed amounts to idolatry, that certainly would be true of Adam and Eve.
 Next we seek that we shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain. Hopefully this brings to notion our relationship with God. We should know who God is, but also know Him personally. You cannot take His name in vain if you don't know Him. You might know the President of the United States, or you might just know who they are. This was broken when Adam & Eve ate the fruit, betraying God, whom they knew. The Sabbath should be plainly obvious being drawn from Genesis 1. Just as God rested we are to rest.
 Honor our parents should be obviously from both Adam and Eve's rebellion against their Father in Heaven. The next few, do not murder, commit adultery, or bear false witness are also seen in this part of Genesis. Murder is brought about through the eating of the fruit, and thus death entered the world. Adultery shows purity which was lost when Adam and Eve realized they were naked and then bore false witness to God by hiding and then casting the blame one after the other from Adam to Eve to the Serpent.

 Finally, the idea of coveting comes from Eve's looking upon the forbidden fruit. The serpent tempted her and she coveted being like God. So she coveted the fruit as it was desirious to the eyes, looked delicious to eat, and was boasted to give her wisdom.

 Hopefully this has shown that the 10 Commandments weren't arbitrarily formed, but rather God, through His wisdom ordained them based upon past human failures to show us His excellence, His standards, our shortcomings, but also God's foreknowledge and over-arching plan. May this encourage us to strive continually to be like Jesus, and have peace knowing that God is in control whether we succeed or fail.