Mom is busy doing her weekly chores: cleaning bathrooms, laundry, dusting, etc. She goes to Tommy's room where he is playing a video game. “Tommy,” she orders, “stop playing that game and clean your room.”
“Ok, Mom.”
Fifteen minutes later, Mom passes by Tommy's room with a laundry basket of clothes. She finds that Tommy is still playing his video game. “Tommy,” she says sternly, “stop playing that game right now and clean your room!”
“Just a minute.”
“Now!” She stalks off with the laundry muttering to herself.
Another thirty minutes later, she decides to check on Tommy's progress. He is still playing his video game. Now she is mad as a wet hen. She storms into his room, turns off the video game, which angers Tommy. “Mom! I was almost to the next level!”
“I told you to stop playing and clean your room! You mess with me, and I'll throw that game out in the trash!” Now both Mom and Tommy are angry at each other: Mom because her wishes were ignored, and Tommy because his wishes were ignored.
Sound familiar? Every parent can relate to this scenario. Actually, everyone can relate to this scenario. No matter the circumstances, we hate feeling ignored. When we feel ignored, it affects our own feeling of self-importance. It begins by feeling ignored, which turns to hurt feelings; which then turns to anger; which leads to a full blown pity party, aided by the devil who tells us we don't matter. He tells us we are not important to that person; in fact, nobody cares.  After a wild pity party, we realize there was a valid reason that person didn't respond to us, and we made a mountain out of a mole hill.
Imagine how God must feel when we ignore Him. He gave us life. In fact, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). We ignore God every day. We put Him on a shelf when things are going our way. We tell Him He's not important in our life when we don't pray like we should; don't read His word like we should; and don't share His love with others like we should. If we get upset when we are ignored by others, think how He must feel when His children ignore Him.