Well, don't be fooled by appearances. Yes, it's small and ordinary now, but next year it'll be taller than I am and be a nesting place for sparrows. But there's really a buried treasure in the southwest corner. Whoever works that field this year will harvest far more than he ever dreamed. Parables help us to see things the way Jesus did.
Parables are plain stories in plain language about plain things.
But they have a purpose. 1 God's people have always been a people on a journey. A journey implies going from one place to another. On this journey, the parables act as rope bridges upon which we pass over into the Promised Land of faith. Parables also force us to travel lightly.