Wait until I find out

Wait until I find out. The Israelites are getting ready to celebrate their second Passover. It has been a roller coaster year for them beginning to learn that they are to be holy because God is holy. The celebration takes place on the fourteenth day for the first month. Prior to this, much time has been spent learning about who and what is clean and unclean. What the causes are, what makes one clean again, and how to be restored to fellowship once one is clean again. A great deal of instruction is also given regarding the restrictions that apply to those who are unclean. One being that they can not participate in celebrations before the Lord.
There was a group of Israelites who were ceremonially unclean (because of exposure to a dead body, you can't really help that one!) at the time this celebration was to take place. They still wanted to present an offering to the Lord so they came to Moses to find out what could be done.
Moses has close with God. He was God's mouthpiece to the children of Israel. He was physically is God's presence, speaking face to face with God's presence more than anyone else I can think of. If anyone knew what God expected or could assume what God would say...it would be Moses. Yet, Moses made no assumptions. Numbers 9:8 says that Moses answered them, "Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you." Powerful! Moses was not going to step out on his own, thinking that he was pretty sure what God would say. After all, he had talked with God more than anyone. All the rules and regulation had come to the people through him. Yet, Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth. (Numbers 12:3) Moses knew that God was the one leading, not him, Moses. It is that recognition that causes Moses to respond like he did.
Sometimes we feel like we ought to have the answer. After all, we're pretty grounded in the Word. There's something that should apply. I don't want to keep them waiting.
Moses wasn't even starting to think like he might know the answer. "Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you." Oh Lord, let me be "slow to speak, quick to listen"...to You.