Human love is an imperfect of God’s love Song of Solomon 5:2 – I slept, but my heart was awake.A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.” Song of Solomon 5:3 – I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them? Song of Solomon 5:4-6 – My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me. I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer. will be a part of every marriage “Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.” - Tim Keller Genesis 2:24 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” “No one gives us more opportunities to be angry than the people we live with and love.” - Paul David Tripp How we handle conflict will determine the & of our marriage We need to handle conflict than the world does Romans 12:2 – Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. In conflict we want to not just Song of Solomon 5:7-8 – The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love. In conflict we want to peace and restoration Ephesians 4:26-27 – Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 2and give no opportunity to the devil. Song of Solomon 5:9 – “What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?” In conflict we need of Song of Solomon 6:1-3 – Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze[a] in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies. Our model is Jesus