Unconditional Election - Romans 8 and Foreknowledge

A survey of the BIble reveals that God is a choosing God. God has pleasure in the doctrine of election and election brings glory to God. If that is so, why do we not focus on this vital doctrine more often? From the beginning, God had a plan to redeem mankind. This plan was made certain "before the foundation of the world" (Eph 1:4). From the beginning, God set apart a people for Himself and His infinite glory - a people we now see includes both Jews and Gentiles. It is this setting of His divine love and choice on a certain people that we know as "election." In election, God saves men and women in accordance with a plan formulated in eternity past. The events we see unfolding in time are not chaotic but the divinely ordained means that God uses to bring His plan to fruition. In fact, "this world and all that is in it exist primarily as the means to the fulfillment of a divine purpose, 'to unite [or, consummate] all things in him [Christ]'" (Eph 1:9-10).