It’s a perennial temptation in the evangelical church to want to live in the future instead of the present. We just need to persevere for a little longer so we can fly away to our mansion just over the hilltop. Wright (in The Resurrection of the Son of God) reminds us that the resurrection gives meaning to the present:

The first Christians, despite what used to be said in the heyday of existentialist theology, were thereby committed to living and working within history, not to living in a fantasy-world where history had in principle already come to a stop and all that remained was for this to be worked out through the imminent end of the space-time universe. The promised future, both for themselves and for the whole cosmos, gave meaning and validity to the present embodied life.