Light Automatically Upsets the Dark
This is a great question. Some people do look at our standards and, frankly, don’t want anything to do with us. Sometimes it might be because they have been given wrong information about the Church, or because of prejudice, or other understandable factors. But sometimes, it is simply because of righteousness and wickedness. The Savior gave a great insight as to why this is the case when He said:
21 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
In other words, if people do love truth, and high standards, and virtue, and righteousness, then they will look at LDS standards and be impressed by them and come “to the light”. If they don’t, then as the Savior said, it might be because “their deeds [are] evil” and they don’t want to be “reproved” (or corrected and told to repent). Hopefully, as Latter-day Saints, we can live high standards and be a “light of the world” (see Matthew 5:14-16) to those who do love the truth, and love the high standards that come with it.
