This passage encourages you not to look at the entire human race through all generations for all time but to only look at yourself and ask the question "Did God choose me? Perhaps it will help you to look at the doctrine of election a little softer. For many people have a difficult time not only looking at this teaching but discussing it with someone who might have a different view. For others , they believe this teaching only because it is in the Bible. I don't believe that anyone is able to understand it but believe it because God said so.