Romans 9:12-16

it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”

Just as it is written: “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? Far from it!

For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.”

So then, it does not depend on the person who wants it nor the one who runs, but on God who has mercy.