Texts on election point to God's choice of a person or a people to serve him. Abram was called to be a vehicle for God's blessing of every nation. Election is never a question of God electing or reprobating individuals to heaven or hell for mysterious divine reasons. It points to the calling of a person like Moses or a people like Israel to bear the name of God. God's purpose in blessing them is always in order to have mercy on others, too.
Election is corporate and potentially inclusive of outsiders.
It does not refer to the arbitrary choice of a restricted number of individuals to be saved but to the corporate body which, in Christ God is saving and using to bless the world. Texts on predestination are also read in a context. I read them in relation to the loving, reciprocal relationships which God desires to establish with people in his dynamic creation project. In this context, God's power is not abstract but the power of love that sustains relationships. It is the kind of power revealed in the cross where God loves us self-sacrificially and refuses to bully us.