Matthew 21:1 says, And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,  Jesus was nearing Jerusalem, but He stopped at Bethphage and the mount of Olives.  Then, He sent two of His disciples into the city.  In verse two, Jesus said, Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.  Jesus told them the reason for the trip.  When God sends us somewhere, it is always for a purpose.  We simply need to listen to Him to know what it is.  The disciples were to find an ass, or donkey, and a colt with her, and they were to untie them and bring them to Jesus.  Although Jesus had told them what to do, the disciples had to have faith in Him to do it.  They could have been arrested for stealing the animals.  When we know beyond a doubt what Jesus has instructed us to do, we simply need to do it.  Verse three states,And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.  Jesus may have understood that the disciples would be apprehensive, so He told them if anyone asked why they were taking the donkey and colt, to tell them that the Lord needed them and they would soon be returned.  God is never going to send us out to simply take what belongs to another person.  If it is something necessary to accomplish His work, He will make our use of it okay.  Verse four says, All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,  Once more, this was to be the fulfillment of a prophecy.  Matthew did not sit down and write this as it was happening, but wrote it looking back on the events and could easily see the fulfillment of this prophecy.  Sometimes, we may not see the full extent of what God is doing through us until we step out in faith and look back later at what He has done.  Verse five says, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.  As the scripture foretold, Jesus was not coming as a conquering King on a mighty steed, but as a meek Servant sitting on a borrowed donkey.  We can never allow our expectations of Christ to prevent us from seeing Who He really is.  Even on a borrowed donkey, Jesus was the one true King.  Verse six states, And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,  Even if they may have been apprehensive, the disciples went and did what Jesus told them to do.  I cannot say for sure that they were apprehensive, but I can say for sure that if God calls us to do something that we feel apprehensive about, that as long as we are certain that it is what God is telling us to do, then we must simply obey Him.  Verse seven says, And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.  I believe that one way that the disciples knew that what Jesus told them to do was okay was because they evidently found the donkey and the colt as He had said they would, and they brought them to Him.  I believe that we likewise will find that when God sends us to do something, we will find proof that He is indeed in charge of our going.  They used their clothes to make it more comfortable for Jesus, just as we must use what we have today to make it easier for the gospel to be shared.  Verse eight says, And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.  The multitudes made the road itself smoother, with clothes and tree branches, but they still did not really know Who Jesus was.  They were caught up in following Him for material reasons.  There are people today who are happy to proclaim Jesus as their Savior as long as everything goes well in the world.  Verse nine declares, And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.  The multitudes were going before Jesus proclaiming Him to be the Messiah and calling Him blessed.  I believe that part of the problem was that they were going ahead of Jesus and attempting to make Him into what the wanted the Messiah to be, instead of following Jesus and understanding Who He really is.  We can never get ahead of God if we are to be true followers, and we can certainly never attempt to make Jesus conform to what we want Him to be instead of Who He is.