This brief excerpt expresses only a portion of the value of anticipating heaven.  Please go to the complete text (as well as the audio and video versions) at
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/joys-eternal-increase-edwards-on-the-beauty-of-heaven

Heaven is characterized by the increase of joy. Heaven is not simply about the reality or experience of joy, but its eternal increase. The blessedness of the beauty of heaven is progressive, incremental, and incessantly expansive.

The happiness of heaven is not like the steady, placid state of a mountain lake where barely a ripple disturbs the tranquility of its water. Heaven is more akin to the surging, swelling waves of the Mississippi at flood stage. With each passing day there is an increase in the level of water. And as the rain of revelation and insight and discovery continues to fall throughout the endless ages of eternity, so the water level of love and joy and happiness rises higher and higher, never to abate or to any degree diminish.[1]

[1] Sam Storms, “Joy’s Eternal Increase: Edwards on the Beauty of Heaven,” Desiring God 2003 National Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota; original emphasis;
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/joys-eternal-increase-edwards-on-the-beauty-of-heaven