READ II Corinthians 5 COMMENTARY: : 5      Now he that has wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given to us the earnest of the Spirit. (728 “earnest” [arrhabon] means money which is purchases is given as a pledge or down payment that the full amount will subsequently be paid, first installment, pledge, guarantee, deposit, or first installment.) DEVOTION:  There is a change coming. We are not going to be in these earthly bodies forever. We are going to receive a heavenly body because of our relationship with Jesus Christ. We have to live in these weak human bodies until we die or the LORD returns and calls us home to heaven. Paul wants the believers in Corinth to understand that there are already eternal bodies prepared for them. We need to realize this as well. They…