What about Heaven?

At the end of 2 Corinthians 4 Paul says, " For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."  2 Corinthians 4:17, 18.
Heaven was very real to Paul but is it real to us today?  Affluence has brought us in this life what former generations could only anticipate in heaven.  The writer of Hebrews says, "These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect."  Hebrews 11:39, 40.  These saints were promised something better than they had received in this life.  We have an over-realized eschatology in which God's promises for the future are transported into the present.  It is easy for us to point fingers at the health and wealth preachers but in reality most of us have little anticipation of heaven because we life in a world of affluence and comfort.  The older, biblical images of heaven have lost their appeal.  
Paul referred to what was happening to him as a light and momentary trouble which helped him focus on the eternal glory.  Now it is not our desire to suffer persecution, troubles and pain but we need to ask the question, How can we build an anticipation of heaven in a world of affluence and comfort?