"Repent and be baptized."
That is God's command to you and to me. If you are elect, you will respond in kind. But your response in no wise proceeds it, but is a response to God's call, to which only the elect will respond. Elect from every tribe and tongue. In short, the whole world.
Free will is a popular belief in our day and age and comports nicely with American individualism. But our final authority as Christians must be the Word. Be thankful, that God has chosen you.