Kitabu by Paul Clement is at best an attempt at the description of an indescribable God. We live in a world where many things have a framework to help us make sense of reality – be it science, data, or phenomena. But when we get to God everything falls apart, not our words, not our instruments of measurements. We cannot simply put Him in a box.
We run out of ways to express him, that is his expression, how God has made Himself known unto us with His work. What an oxymoron expressed in this song!
Ndani ya huu wimbo wa KITABU niliimba wimbo wa Ndugu yangu, rafiki yangu na mtumishi wa MUNGU @joellwaga unaokwenda kwa jina la WADUMU MILELE moja ya nyimbo ambazo nazipenda kutoka kwake.
Paul clement comments on the song Kitabu on Instagram
Song factsheet
| Song title | Kitabu |
| Artists | Paul Clement (see bio) |
| Recording type | Live Recording |
| Release date | May 25, 2026 |
| Genre | Swahili Gospel |
| Song duration | 15:04 |
| Song key | C# |
Song review
Main themes
Song is built on the following themes:
- God’s vast, indescribable works
- God is not a old time story — he is alive and real today
- God needs no advertisement — his works speak for themselves
- God is the sovereign design over all creation
God’s vast, indescribable works
How may times in our lives have we, stepped back to analyze the testimonies we have of God doing wonders in our lives or even looking at the creation and seeing his handiwork in creation and other people’s work it makes us want to go and tell men.
An example of how, when Jesus Christ healed people, their first response was to rise and tell others. That is the experience we have that if our God was a book, it’s Him we would always be talking about, and if you were given an opportunity to write about Him, words would fail.
Psalm 40:5 (KJV)
[5] Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalm 139:17–18 (KJV)
[17] How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
[18] If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
God is not an old-time story-He is alive and real today
In one way or another in our walk with God, we have experienced His attributes, and this is the anchor that we know that He is not only the God of our Fathers or the people of old in the scriptures.
Not a story to be heard in other people’s testimonies, but He is alive and has made Himself real in our lives. In the answered prayers, the provision when lack was the only thing we saw, in the love when no one could love or understand.
Hebrews 13:8 (KJV)
[8]Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Revelation 1:8 (KJV)
[8]I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
God needs no advertisement — his works speak for themselves
We live in a world that markets everything. But God does not need a campaign. He does not need us to defend him. He needs us to point to him. His works are their own testimony.
His power is true. His grace is true. His works are true. And a God whose works speak for themselves is a God worth staking your life on.
Psalm 19:1 (KJV)
[1] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Romans 1:20 (KJV)
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
God is the sovereign design over all creation
In the scriptures in the book of Job, Job is lamenting to God, and God answers Job, asking why He questions God’s wisdom without knowledge. The next series of questions that the right response is no response.
This same God created you and me in an outstanding way that even twins are different to some extent. That he created times and seasons and lives outside them. He is not a God that we come to question without understanding the magnitude of His essence.
Job 38:4, 8–11 (KJV)
[4] Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
[8] Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
[9] When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
[10] And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
[11] And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Audience
The song Kitabu by Paul Clement glorifies our wonderful and indescribable God, and is fit for these uses:
- Congregational worship use
- Personal edification
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