How does this apply to us today? I think the application for us today, aside from the actual information given in these parables, is in seeing how to learn and apply lessons to ourselves.
The Savior is teaching how to not just hear something, but to hear... and understand. He wants us not to just see but to perceive. He teaches in a way that these people can relate to, so they can understand.
I feel that living in this fullness of times, being able to look back on all that has happened, gives us so much information. How do we apply this to our life?
The key is in the application of information.
As we read scriptures, ponder thoughts, listen to the Prophet, we can glaze over and read, hear, see... and it is a good thing. But isn't the better thing to make the application to ourselves?
The purpose for the genuine seeing and hearing per these verses is that we... should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Original post: 3/21/14
