Walk like a man, be a man, man up, act like a man! I have heard these statements throughout the years used in many ways with many inferences. I sometimes wonder at how such colloquialism begins. I was amazed when I found there to be a scriptural understanding for these statements. To be a man really means to follow God.
1Ki 2:1-4 (NLT) As the time of King David’s death approached, he gave this charge to his son Solomon: “I am going where everyone on earth must someday go. Take courage and be a man. Observe the requirements of the LORD your God, and follow all His ways. Keep the decrees, commands, regulations, and laws written in the Law of Moses so that you will be successful in all you do and wherever you go. If you do this, then the LORD will keep the promise He made to me. He told me, ‘If your descendants live as they should and follow Me faithfully with all their heart and soul, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.'”