What do we focus on...

What do we focus on in our readings of the Word? What is our perspective? My guess, and my personal experience is it is all ME centered. Or in the very least US centered (for a community of believers). Which creates a tendency to gloss over what God is doing and has done, unless we move directly on to what He's done FOR US. We also are focused on what WE have to DO.

Example, this verse.

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you to will and to do His good will. (Phil. 2:12,13)

We focus on the first part and give lip service to the second part. What if we were to focus on the second part and give lip service to the first. Or what if the first part is the natural and spontaneous expression of the foundational second part?