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Because sometimes the Sun is behind us when we look at the moon, meaning that the sunlit side is facing us, and at other time the Sun is in front of both us and the Moon, meaning that the Moon’s sunlit side is facing away from us. It ultimately depends on where the Moon is in its orbit about the Earth.
