Where does God live? 

For this is what the high and exalted One says—
    he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
“I live in a high and holy place,
    but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.” Is 57:15

We don’t deserve it, but God comes close to those who respond to sin with true brokenness.  Do you know a person that you think is beyond hope, that they have dug a ditch too deep to recover, or that they never seem to be able to change?  God lives there.  Aren’t you glad!

At your lowest point, at your most undeserving moment, at the smell of your own repulsive pride, God is able to be present to restore.  He wants to revive you and heal you to the uttermost.  It is God’s desire to put things in order wherever He is present.  Disorder and chaos are not part of his living quarters.  So He rebuilds those broken things around Him. Amazingly he repairs the cracks in our lives in such a way that others notice His workmanship.            

So, when you mess up...remember to run where God lives and not the opposite direction.  Don't be too proud to live with the lowly, you might miss God's handiwork of restoration.