Public reading of Scripture

On Sunday in church, we prayed for abatement of the California wild fires, and the Old Testament reading included Jeremiah 14:22.

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
for you do all these things.

The phrase "can the heavens give showers" hit me in the gut. To believe in the God of the Bible is to deny philosophical materialism (which maintains that events can be explained entirely in terms of material causes - like changes in temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.). Not only can the false gods not give rain, but the heavens themselves do not give showers; even the rains come from God. It is He who created the laws of nature, and He who establishes them and can overrule them at any time.

Thank God for the public reading of Scripture that overturns my assumptions, and teaches me to pray like I ought - and to raise children as I ought.