He threw the house together in record time, and cut corners on material and labor wherever he could. He saved the boss a lot of money, but it wasn't really his best work and he knew it. Imagine how he felt when he turned the keys over to the boss, and the boss gave them right back, and fished around in his briefcase and gave him the title and deed to the property on the golf course. Then the builder wished he hadn't been in such a hurry. He wished he hadn't cut corners and taken short cuts just to get the job done.
Life is like that.
Exactly like that. We become the product of our own integrity in following after God. Or lack of integrity. We become exiles from innocence when we try to take short cuts to being like God. Or, following our Savior, we use the promises and the commandments of God to resist the tempter's power, and we begin to share in Christ's righteousness.