"The Father who has sent me has himself borne witness about me." (here's the difficulty) "His voice you have never heard, His form you have never seen, and you do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom He has sent." There isn't much we can do about not hearing and not seeing, so abiding in His word is obviously a high priority. The next verse explains how that can go wrong...
"You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." Irony; you can abide in scripture and miss the point. The desire is for His word to abide in you. Both people would think they are abiding, only one gets the intended result.
a·bide əˈbīd/ verb 1. accept or act in accordance with
Trying to be alive in God's word is never the same as God's word being alive in me. What does it mean for God's word to be abiding in you?
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