Tonga · September 2022The Billion T-shirt
We were going through my clothes, which at that point came to about three T-shirts, one pair of jeans and two pairs of shorts, when we found one I'd kept for nostalgic reasons.
Years ago I started internet businesses. The most successful one was GetAFreelancer.com. I built it with a friend in Ukraine, who did most of the programming, from scratch and without any investors. A few weeks before it was sold, we passed our biggest competitor in traffic. The buyer later renamed it Freelancer.com. My username there was “billion”, and it's printed on the front of the shirt.
The sale made me a dollar millionaire for a short while, until the taxes were paid.
Our life is completely different now. We used to think that our faith and our walk with the Lord had something to do with the success. That was false, and prideful. God does what He likes, when it suits Him. His plan is different from ours, and larger, and His focus is on eternity, not on a good life here.
“We’re His vessels, in whatever way that pleases Him, poor or rich.”