When you trust in Christ, you are not just hoping things will work out all right, you are in communion with the Reality who eternally makes all things all right. We have been predestined to be conformed to the image of the Son of God. The creation cannot fail to be redeemed and transformed when the Son of God takes it up into his own being. It becomes a new creation. What God makes is good.
Human freedom is good.
What humans have done with that good gift of freedom is not good. But, in Christ, God redeems sinners. Abraham was chosen, or elected, by God, for example, as were his son and grandson, Isaac and Jacob. Other chosen ones included Moses, Joshua, David, the prophets, and of course, the people of Israel were chosen from among the other nations. The apostle Paul wrote about predestination in several passages.