Another feather on her hat. Another badge of honor on her veteran journalistic chest.
Maria Ressa, they may go after you and persecute you for being true to your journalistic calling, but you are certainly winning the struggle for press freedom in our country with flying colors by showing courage in the midst of a seeming narcissistic dictatorial leadership who can't stand being criticised and corrected unsolicited.
When will they ever learn that persecuting critics in an attempt to silence them is a futile self-defeating effort?
To some people, what is happening to Maria Ressa may appear as a big blow to press freedom, but it is instead a victory in persecution. A feather on the hat of courageous journalism. A badge of honor on the chest of journalistic calling.
Any true freedom has a real precious price to be paid. What Maria Ressa has shown is exactly what a true-to-the-calling journalist should be and ought to do. Tremble if you must, but nevertheless stand courageous and pay the price that must be paid.
To those true-to-the-calling journalists, the kind of administration that our country has recently is a best opportunity for you to be polished by persecution and shine like diamonds as what is happening to Maria Ressa and those other persecuted political critics.
So, how about the rest who call themselves journalists, when will your light shine? Are you merely content with your title? When will you prove worthy of your true calling? When will you polish your hidden valuable courage that it may shine amidst today's many forms of persecution?
Can't you still see that now is a great opportunity to shine and be counted as among those who are genuinely true to their calling?!
Onward called out ones, for these days are your opportuned moments to shine! Don't settle on your dregs; the Lord God is shaking you! Polish your valuable courage with the rough sands of today's persecutions.
These days are days of great shaking!
God will shake and pour his people from vessel to vessel:
"My people has been at rest like in their youth, like wine left on its dregs, as if not poured from vessel to vessel, or as if they had not experienced hardship: therefore their taste remain the same, and their aroma is not changed."
[Referenced from: Jeremiah 48:11]
