Comfortable being comfortable

The longer I am Orthodox, and the more I read the early church fathers and the desert fathers, the more this question comes to mind.  It seems that in America, the presumption is the pursuit of comfort, wealth and ease.  "Of course we should be wealthy and comfortable, that's the American dream."  But that is not the mind of the Church.
When we remember that our souls are darkened and corrupted by sin, that the church is the hospital for our salvation and that our tendency is towards the flesh and temporal, we should remember to orient ourselves towards living as if these things are true.  Far too often we live as if all is fine.  We've heard the saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," but that is not the case here.  Our souls are corrupt, we live according to our flesh and we are selfish. 
The nearly unquestioned attitude is that of striving after wealth and comfort.  We strive to have a comfortable retirement, relaxing and enjoying a permanent vacation.
Our eternal state will be determined by the state of our souls and if we spend eighty years feeding our souls temporal, earthly, even sinful things, will it be any surprise when our eternity looks the same?  The point I am making here is simple.  If we love God, we will strive after Him.  This means putting away and rejecting those things that are contrary to Him.  If we love those things that are contrary to Him, then why would we want to live for eternity with Him?  Heaven is not the ultimate pleasure and thrill.  Heaven is getting to be with God and eternally drawing closer and closer to Him.
The pursuit of wealth and comfort is radically different that the pursuit of holiness and communion with God.  We have to choose one, we cannot have both.