Would you lay your coat over a mud puddle? Luke 19-20

The fable story of the gentlemen who throws his coat over a mud puddle for the women he loves to walk across it has become an example of chivalry and respect.  Laying your garment down to honor another, however, has even a bigger meaning in our reading today.  When Jesus rode into the city of Jerusalem the disciples and others put their coats on the donkey for Jesus to sit upon and laid them on the ground for the donkey to walk across.   To really understand this act of honor we need to recognize the poverty of the day and practical use of the coat.   I own numerous coats.  I own some just for riding the Harley.  I own some for when I dress up.  I own some coats because I like the color. Some I like the logo on it.  Some I just like the way it fits.  I have coats in my closet, my car, my bike and in storage.  I can afford to toss a coat on the ground for someone to step on ... even a donkey.   Yet, these people didn't even have a storage unit, much less a winter coat and summer coat.  Yet, in their poverty they were willing to lay what they did have down on the ground.   Another aspect is that in this part of the world the nights can get very cold.  The coat was a blanket.  To simply toss it on the ground was to take a very important possession and discard it.  The coat was also used as a pillow.   The coat was so important to these people that in Deuteronomy 24 God made a law that if someone gives you his cloak in a pledge you are to give it back to him at night to his warmth.   These men, by laying their coats down, we making more than a gentlemanly act of kindness.  They were giving up a prize possession for their Lord.   In our modern day Christian movements we argue if God should get a 10th of our gross or net pay, while we walk away with 90% of the rest.  Are you willing to give a prize possession to the Lord?  Would you cast it as his feet?