Look What I Did

The lectionary reading for this week contains Scripture from 1 Kings 8 - the dedication of the temple.  As I was reading it this morning, I noticed that it is somewhat "Solomon-centric."  Solomon has the ark brought to the temple and then says a prayer to dedicate the new structure. 

In this prayer, he prays that God will keep God's promises to David, including that there will be a successor to David (Solomon).  Twice Solomon refers to the new temple as "the house that I have built."

Do we echo Solomon's prayers? Do we dwell on the work we have done ourselves rather than the work God has done? Solomon has completed something spectacular, no doubt, but I wonder if God's promise of a successor being connected to "if only your (David's) children look to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me" has anything to do with looking toward God rather than focusing on what we have done - what Solomon has done.

Maybe I've missed it, but does Solomon praise God for God's work in creating a temple?  I might have missed it, or it might be in verses that aren't included, but it does feel like this acknowledgement of God's work is missing.

Do we do that?