Election is the first cause of our salvation.
It is borne out of GOD'S own love for us. Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. It is out of the abyss of GOD'S love that election proceeds, and it is the narrow way by which sinners would be made heirs of eternal glory. And herein is the source and essence of election. And everyone who is chosen of GOD is chosen of GOD in Christ.