How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament Quotes

“We thus pray IOUS: “Incline [our] heart[s] to your testimonies” (Ps. 119:36); “Open [our] eyes that [we] may behold wondrous things out of your law” (119:18); “Unite [our] heart[s] to fear your name” (86:11); and “Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days” (90:14).6 John Piper has helpfully captured the sixfold process of education:7 Observe carefully; Understand rightly; Evaluate fairly; Feel appropriately; Apply wisely; Express articulately and boldly. These are the necessary habits of the heart and mind needed for rightly grasping all truth in God’s Book.”
― Jason S. DeRouchie, How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology