'Ye are all the children of light'
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Several scriptures refer to individuals who love darkness rather than light. Addressing this topic, Elder Neal A. Maxwell wrote in Notwithstanding My Weakness:
"When . . . we reach a certain point — when our eye is single to God's glory we will be 'filled with light, and there shall be no darkness' in us, 'and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.' (D&C 88:67.)
"Note, however, that the continued presence in us of light and truth clearly depends upon our keeping [the] first great commandment." (This commandment is to "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind." (Luke 10:27.)
Elder Maxwell wrote further: "Paul discussed alienation from the life of God that results from darkened understanding through ignorance, because of 'the blindness of their heart.' Paul then quoted that such individuals were desensitized, because in their celebration of sensuality, they had 'given themselves over to lasciviousness.' (Eph. 4:18-19.) He concluded, 'Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.' (1 Thess. 5:5.) There is nothing in the night, therefore, that will encourage us to put off the natural man. But everything about light so insists on our pressing forward toward becoming saints."
