"Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it" (Luke 24:41)
In Sunday’s Gospel, the Risen Jesus’s disciples do not believe in him for a strange reason: their joy is too great!
It seems odd, but sometimes we can lack faith for this reason: we think it is all too good to be true.
I remember a friend once saying that they could not believe Jesus really knew and loved each person in the world, since it seemed too much. Another told me they didn’t want to be in debt to Jesus and so they could not accept his forgiveness.
