True holiness standards have always been based upon love, modesty, dedication and giving. Standards can be seen as they are lifted high upon the battlefields of spiritual conflict. Standards of sobriety and honesty are seen flying above the carnage of worldliness and greed. The banners of prayer and intercession wave a beacon of personal victory on our battlefields of carnality. Standards will often make a Christian 'stick out in a crowd'.
Submission becomes more visible in a world filled with rebellion.
Modesty is quite obvious in a crowded room where lewdness abounds. Wherever a spiritual battle rages, the holiness banners of the followers of Christ are seen waving high above the clamor. These banners or standards are the outward manifestation of the inner holiness that God's Spirit is working in the heart of the believer. Standards are not meaningless flaps of cloth wafted upon a pole of religious showmanship, but rather the blood bought manifestations of the Spirit controlled life. A dinning room triumph is won when the hunger is overcome with food.