Emunah Begins in the Present

Rav Raphael Boruch would ask: Why did Dovid HaMelech reverse the order in the words "Hashem Melech, Hashem Malach, Hashem Yimloch l'olam va'ed", speaking first of the present, then of the past and only then of the future? Logically he should have begun with the past, then the present, and then the future. The answer is that the foundation of emunah is in the present. We cannot feel Hashem's kingship in the past as long as we have not accepted His reign now. Only after we have rooted the kingship of Hashem deeply in our hearts, at every present moment, can we, with pure emunah, come to grasp His kingship in the past and in the future.