Go...and do like wise

One thing I always hated is when my mom would tell me to do something and then do the very thing that she told me not to do.  I remember one time that my mother was making some delicious smelling cookies.  It was just about to be dinner time (and a child who was ridiculed quite a lot as a child, I knew not to eat them before dinner).  After dinner I did not want anything else, so decided to wait until after my stomach was relaxed to try a couple of the delicious cookies.
As the night wore on, the remembrance of the smell of those delicious cookies entered my mind and proceeded to the kitchen to grab a cookie.  My mom asked where I was going, and when I told her that I was headed to grab some cookies I was saddened when she said, "It's to late at night, you will have to wait till tomorrow".  It was upsetting later that night to see my very mother who told me I could not have a cookie eating some.  This is how a lot of us react to things, we say one thing, but the very thing we say is always for our benefit.
I respect my mother and other mother and fathers out there and I am NOT saying that we should not listen to them for this very reason.  We owe our families the utmost respect and they deserve to be listened to, this story is only an analogy from my life to describe something I see everyday.
What I believe to fix something like this, is a focus on our life example.  Of course every example to any Christians story is to be like Jesus and this is exactly what Christ calls us to do.
There are different aspects to understanding this:
1) We have been given our example to follow, who is Christ, and are to model his life.  Maybe we will never reach a state to die for the sins of the world, but maybe we can do our will of doing what God calls us to.
2) Over and over again in the Gospel of John Jesus is said to follow the "hour" of God's will (see John 2:4; 4:21, 23, 53; 5:25, 28; 7:30; 8:20; 12:27; 13:1; etc.).  I believe we as well should follow God's plan by the "hour", or what I believe to be Jesus' following of His will.
And 3) We need to learn to love each other.  A lot of the time we would rather just ignore the whole situation of when people tell us one thing and do another.  Or, we like to yell back and argue our side of the story.  There is only one answer to follow through with this and that is to love them no matter how they act.
This may just be something that we need to all hear over and over again (and I am speaking to myself as much as I am speaking to the few people who may read this).  But, this is mainly to encourage others that we have an example and we can also love one another.