Hypocrite, narrow-minded, my standards are too high?

"Whenever people say, 'Christians are hypocrites,' I say, 'duh, every time we come together we are confessing that we are hypocrites, weaklings in need of God and each other'" - Rick Mullens
We are who we are. Not one Christian among us is perfect and that is not going to change.
I have been called a hypocrite, narrow-minded, and that my standards are too high. Now ask me if I care? No, I don’t care. I am not here to try and please you, but my whole life is here to serve and love my LORD. The statements about me maybe true, but why are they?
First there is the statement that I am a hypocrite, and that is probably true. But then again who in this world is not a hypocrite in one way or another? I live my life in service to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but I have failed him many times. Even Jesus’ most trusted disciples have failed him, they have been hypocrites. Let’s first look at Peter. Peter loved Jesus with everything he had and was, saying that he would die for Jesus. He defended Jesus when they arrested him, cutting off the ear of one of the men. Not even fearing death, Peter followed Jesus to the trial, but when it mattered most Peter denied Jesus three times! What worse thing could man do to our LORD? But still Jesus came to Peter after his resurrection to reinstate him to his calling of being the Rock that the Church would be built on. (Luke 22, John 18, John 21) Second there is Paul who said this himself, “For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” And then he goes on to say, “And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.” We are men, far from the perfection that is Christ. Even Isaiah says that our best work is like filthy rags to the LORD. You live the life that I am trying to live and not be a hypocrite from time to time.
Why am I narrow-minded? For I know that I must "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14). The Bible calls us to walk the narrow path, not one that is wide allowing for any wayward thinking. For wide is the way that leads to destruction. The views of this world are not of God, “You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” (James 4:4-5) Then also in James 1 he talks about wisdom, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.” If we want wisdom it should come from God, for God will give us the wisdom that we ask for. “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (1 Cor. 3:19) So why would I want to change my mind for a mere man’s beliefs. I will look to the Lord for my wisdom and truth. I will sit and wait for the Lords council and not change my mind for any new idea that is passed before me. Liberal view points of this day are going to lead to destruction of the country. They say that what is true for you doesn’t have to be true for me, that it maybe ok for you but it doesn’t mean the same for me. Truth is what you make it and so on…. The Bible speaks of these people in Romans 1, “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen,” and then again in verse 32. “Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.” But the truth is this, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) That is the truth that we can trust in, there is no truth, but that which comes from Jesus. So Jesus is not here on earth anymore, so how can we know what truth is? But He is, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1) and “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14). So Jesus is here, with us and in us. “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). And also, “If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.” (1 John 4:15)
I have chosen to live my life in a way that is pleasing to God my Father in Heaven. (I have not put try, for the same reason that I listed Romans 7. It is not me who sins, but the sin living in me, that is the flesh) “For it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’" (1 Peter 1:16) So I chose to walk as Jesus walked (1 John 2:6). For when he saved me and called me to a holy lifestyle, but it is nothing that I have done, that he has called me to do it, for it was of his own grace and purpose that He has called me (2 Timothy 1:9). So I have a purpose or calling on my life for in John 17:17 it says, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” Sanctify in Greek means, “set apart for sacred use” and when you need something for sacred use, it has to be clean and holy. 2 Corinthians 7:1 reiterates this, “Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.” And then in 1 Corinthians 6:19, “do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.” That is why in 2 Corinthians 6:17 it says, “Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you." We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and are called by God to a holy lifestyle for he intends to use us, but can’t not if we are not holy. “To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps” (1 Peter 2:21). It is the desire of God that we become, “blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe” (Philippians 2:15). Also, God calls us to hold a higher standard, “Therefore do not be partners with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)” The standards of this world are not those of God! They are “crooked and depraved” for it says in 2 Timothy4:3-4, “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine, in stead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears will want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” They have given up truth and holiness to do what they want and no longer follow God. I have chosen to not be one of those people, but who has answered the call of Holiness and purity for God.

references:
Isaiah 35:8-9; 1 john 2:6; 2 Timothy 1:9; John 17:17; 1 Peter 2:21; 2 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Philippians 2:15; 1 John 3:3; Ephesians 5:7-9;